Contributors
- Contributors
Cohen Ambrose is an actor, director, teacher, playwright, dramaturg, and scholar who has lived and worked in Montana, Washington, New York City, Maryland, and Prague, Czech Republic. He holds an MA in Performance Theory and Criticism and an MFA in directing from the University of Montana. His research and scholarship interests include Brecht, Meyerhold, Chekhov, actor- training, phenomenology, pragmatism, media and digital dramaturgy, and cognitive science in performance. His work has been published in Theatre Symposium, Wheelhouse Magazine, State of the Arts, The Brecht Yearbook, and by the University of Montana Press. He has directed and/or acted in over twenty professional and academic productions. He teaches acting, script analy sis, philosophy, and theatre history at the Community College of Baltimore County.
R honda Blair is a professor of theatre at South ern Methodist University. Representative publications include Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies (co- edited with Amy Cook); The Actor, Image, and Action: Acting and Cognitive Neuroscience; editing Boleslavsky's Acting: The First Six Lessons; articles in Affective Performance and Cognitive Science; Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky; Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance, and Cognitive Science; and in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre Survey, TDR, and Theatre Topics. She is a board member for the Centre for Kines thetics, Cognition, and Performance and has delivered keynote and featured talks on theatre and cognitive science in Paris, Rome, Kent, Wroclaw, and Zurich, among other places. She directs and creates performance pieces. She is a past president (2009–2012) of the American Society for Thea tre Research.
Tessa W. Carr is the artistic director of the Mosaic Theatre Company and an associate professor of theatre at Auburn University. Her creative scholarship focuses on applied theatre as a means of creating civic dialogue and social change, and feminist performance strategies and practices. As the artistic director of Mosaic Theatre Company, she facilitates the devising of performance pieces that engage issues of diversity, inclusion, and social justice. The mission of the company is to foster dialogue in the community. Her work has been published in liminalities, Theatre Topics, Text and Performance Quarterly, and Southern Theatre magazine.
Kaja Amado Dunn is an assistant professor of theatre and the head of the acting program at UNC Charlotte, as well as an actor, director, and teacher. She has presented her work on training theatre students of color at University of Lon don Goldsmiths, SETC and SETC Theatre Symposium, KCATF, and the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, among other places. She is on the National Board of the Black Theatre Association. She has performed in over forty shows and taught inter-nationally. She was a 2018 keynote panelist at NCTC. Kaja was previously a lecturer at California State University San Marcos and toured with Ya Tong Theatre in Taiwan. Other teaching credits include working with homeless and foster youth with Playwrights Project San Diego and as a teaching artist with Young Audiences. Her primary research focus is on using theatre to facilitate complex cultural conversation and reimagining theatre training for actors of color. She frequently posts on Twitter about EDI issues under the handle @KajaDunn.
Andrew Gibb, Theatre Symposium associate editor, is the area head of history, theory, and criticism in the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. He has published work in Theatre Symposium, Theatre History Studies, the Latin Ameri can Theatre Review, and the Texas Theatre Journal, and has presented at Theatre Symposium, ASTR, ATHE and the International Conference on Chicano Literature. Andy is pleased to begin his term as Theatre Symposium editor with the upcoming Volume 28: Theatre and Citizenship.
Sarah McCarroll, Theatre Symposium editor, is an associate professor of theatre at Georgia South ern University, where she is also the resident costume designer and costume shop manager. Sarah's research interests include period dress and movement, the his tori cal body, and British theatre of the late nineteenth century. Her work has appeared in Theatre Symposium and in Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies. Sarah's PhD is from Indiana University and her MFA is from the University of Ala bama. She is currently in the early stages of a monograph theorizing stage...
