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Assistant Professor, Acting, Directing and Devising
Latest News
- Skies Over Seattle featured in A&S Perspectives (May 4, 2016)
- Mary Gates Scholars x 3 (April 11, 2016)
- Simon Tran (BA '16) reflects on the Civil Rights Pilgrimage (March 28, 2016)
- Kathy Hsieh: director, actress, and inspirational leader (February 8, 2016)
- Desdemona Chiang (MFA '09) receives 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise (February 3, 2016)
Related Research
- “Sighting Segregation Black aesthetics and the materiality of art in St. Louis and Ferguson,” in The Material World of Modern Segregation edited by Iver Bernstein and Heidi Kolk, 2022.
- TrailOff. By Swim Pony, lead artist Adrienne Mackey, Swim Pony and the PA Environmental Council, Fall 2020, Geolocative mobile app, Philadelphia.
- Lunderman, Shelby. Cruel and Unusual Performance: (Re)producing Capital Punishment on the U.S. Stage. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- “Power Perspective, and Role-Play: Mock Interviews with Inmates.” Mid-America Theatre Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. March 15-18, 2018.
- “The Incarceration of Language: Xhosa and the Performance of Race in South Africa’s Ubuze Bam.” Mid-America Theatre Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. March 15-18, 2018.
- “An uncharted persistence: Alternative minoritarian theater in austere Chicago,” in Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World, edited by Chinua Thelwell. London: Routledge, 2017: 205-229.
- “The Last ‘Last Meal’: Reexamining Execution and the Performance of Power.” Mid-America Theatre Conference. Houston, Texas. March 16-19, 2017.
- Goodson, Christopher. Performing Precarity: Experimental Theater, Video, and Live Political Art with Undocumented Immigrants. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- 2015, “Justice in Transition: South Africa Political Trials, 1956–1964,” chapter in The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance: Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial, edited by Awol Allo. Ashgate, Edinburgh/Glasgow Law and Society Series, Ashgate; reprint from Cole’s monograph on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
- 2015, “Genocides at Home: Ishi, Again,” chapter in Theatre and Human Rights after 1945: Things Unspeakable, edited by Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin, Palgrave Macmillan