PhD in Theatre History and Performance Studies
Fields of Interest
Biography
M.F.A., Directing, Texas State University
B.A., Theatre, Kansas State University
Robert Wighs is a doctoral student in the University of Washington’s program for Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism. His current research has been examining collaborations amongst Native and non-Native groups, as well as contemporary models for devised theatrical performance. He holds a MFA in Directing from Texas State University and a BA from Kansas State University.
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Selected Research
- 2015 ASTR Working Group: 'Mobilizing Effective Scholarship and Performance Today: Advocacy and Activism in Indigenous Research and Performance in the Americas' - "Performing Textual Communities: Lear Khehkwaii and Alaska Native Shakespeare"
- "The Private vs. Public Death of a Patriarch in 'All My Sons' and 'August: Osage County,'" ATDS, Comparative Drama Conference, 'Revealing Patriarch: Cruelty, Corruption, and Death in Contemporary U.S. Drama' Panel, Baltimore, MD, April 2013.
- Wighs, Robert. Alaska Native Theatre: Cultural Resurgence and Reception in Post-Statehood Alaska. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. In progress.
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Professional AffiliationsAmerican Society for Theatre Research