Contributors
- Contributors
GUILLERMO AVILES-RODRIGUEZ is a theatre and performance studies PhD candidate at UCLA and a lecturer in theatre and the Chicana/o Studies Department at California State University, Northridge. His article "Darning Zoot Suit for the Next Generation" is in the Spring 2019 issue of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies and "Theatre and Transit: A Transit-Oriented Site-Specific Triptych" is featured in TheatreForum. He is the creator of Meet Me @Metro, a site-specific, transit-oriented theatrical extravaganza.
SEAN BARTLEY received his PhD in theatre studies at Florida State and is a lecturer in the Department of Music and Theatre at California State University, Bakersfield. He holds a BA in theatre arts management from American University and an MFA in dramaturgy from the joint program between the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and the Moscow Art Theatre School. His research centers on contemporary American site-based, ambulatory, and immersive theatre practices. His work has been featured in TDR: The Drama Review, Theatre Journal, PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research, and Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation.
DAVID BISAHA is an assistant professor of theatre history and theory at Binghamton University, State University of New York. David's research specializes in the history of scenic design in the United States and in the more recent history of immersive and participatory performance. His book project, titled American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism, is a history of modern scenic design praxis among twentieth-century artists in New York City. At Binghamton, [End Page 255] David teaches theatre history and acting/directing theory in the MA and BA programs.
ELIZABETH COEN is a researcher who examines the role of theatre and performance in nation building. She is also a freelance dramaturg and coeditor of LMDA's journal Review. She holds a PhD from the University of Washington in theatre history, theory, and criticism.
PENELOPE COLE received her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where her research focused on the work of Scottish female playwrights. A lifelong teacher, she most recently held a faculty position in the Honors Program at CU Boulder delivering courses in performance studies and directing a study abroad program in Edinburgh, Scotland, using the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a classroom. Her directorial work engages and integrates the audience in challenging and unexpected ways, whether in a traditional theatre or a found location. Most recently, she staged a new translation of Leonid Andreyev's The Black Masks in a converted nineteenth-century mansion in Denver. She is currently an independent scholar engaging in a wide variety of research and writing projects, including the production of a bill of solo performances at the 2019 Fringe. Her work has been published in the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, Theatre Research International, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Theatre Survey, among others.
MICHELLE GRANSHAW is an associate professor of theatre arts at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Granshaw's articles have appeared in Theatre Survey, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Popular Entertainment Studies, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Theatre Topics, and the New England Theatre Journal. Her book, Irish on the Move: Performing Mobility in American Variety Theatre, is available from the University of Iowa Press.
RAND HARMON is a theatre director, producer, and a creative entrepreneur, as well as a scholar investigating the conceptual practices of leading site-based theatre creators in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2007, Harmon founded Specific Gravity Ensemble in Louisville, Kentucky, and as artistic director, he conceived and produced their popular three annual Elevator Plays festivals, as well as four other acclaimed site-based productions. Harmon is an assistant professor of theatre studies at the University of Northern Colorado. [End Page 256]
BRIDGET MCFARLAND received her PhD in English and American literature from New York University. She teaches in the Expository Writing Program at NYU.
ERIN B. MEE is the founding artistic director of This Is Not A Theatre Company, with whom she has conceived and directed the site-specific pieces Pool Play 2.0, A Serious Banquet, Readymade Cabaret, Ferry Play, Subway Plays, Festival de...
