Scott Magelssen (he/him/his)

Scott Magelssen is Floyd U. Jones Family Endowed Executive Director and Professor of Theatre History and Performance Studies in the UW School of Drama. He holds a PhD in Theatre History, Theory, and Dramatic Literature from the University of Minnesota. His most recent book, Performing Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2020. He co-edited a collection of essays, Enveloping Worlds: Toward a Discourse of Immersive Performance with E. B. Hunter (Washington University in St. Louis), which was published by University of Michigan Press in 2025. His current book project, Performing Prehistory: Dinosaur Encounters and Repertoires of Racial Anxiety, is about popular representations of dinosaurs and cavemen starting in the nineteenth century. Scott is the author of Simming: Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning (2014) and Living History Museums (2007), and co-editor of Enacting History (2011), Theatre Historiography: Critical Interventions (2010), and Querying Difference in Theatre History (2007).