Guillaume Tourniaire is a lecturer, director, and dramaturge who has worked in Boston, San Diego, and the DC area. His projects range from translating plays and operettas, to staging both classic and experimental works. He recently served as dramaturge for the School of Drama's Spring 2019 production of Molière's The Learned Ladies. This fall, he will return to Cornish College of the Arts to once again teach Musical Theatre History and Theory.

His dissertation, "Show Boat's 'Make Believe;" Subversion of Stereotype and Sympathy as Liberalism" explores the manipulations of popular performance forms in the 1927 production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat, the means and ends of the creative artists in their original context, and how these established musical theatre as a form modeling inclusion and full American citizenship.