Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Books:
Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor . Co-edited with Elizabeth Osborne. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015. 

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• “‘Equal Rights by all means!’: Beatrice Forbes-Robertson’s 1910 Suffrage Matinee and the Onstage Junction of US and UK Franchise Movements;”  Theatre History Studies. Volume 37 (2018): 209-224.
• “Setting Their Sites on Satire: The Algonquin Roundtable’s Non-Theatrical Spaces of Creative Genesis;”  Theatre Symposium. Volume 24, 2016: 76-87 .
• “Luggage, Lodgings, and Landladies: The Practicalities for Actresses on the British Provincial Circuits in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.” Theatre Symposium. Volume 22, 2014. Forthcoming.
• “The Company She Kept: The Radical Activism of Actress Kitty Marion from Piccadilly Circus to Times Square.” Theatre History Studies. Volume 32, 2012: 80-92.
•  “When Audiences Attack: The Manhandling of Actress and Activist Kitty Marion”; Theatre Symposium. Volume 20, 2012: 109-121.
• “Summon up the blood”: The Stylized (or Sticky) Stuff of Violence in Three Plays by Sarah Kane” Theatre Symposium—The Props the Thing: Stage Properties Reconsidered, University of Alabama Press, 2010.
• “Cleaning House: Working Class Women and Suffrage Drama.” Theatre Annual, 59 (2006),19-38.
• “Boys in Dresses: The Sexualization of Renaissance Child Actors” Text and Presentation, 24 (April 2003): 49-57.

Articles in Refereed Collections:

• “Audience Appetites: Food, Class, and Consumption in New York City’s Theatres” [co-authored with Amy Hughes] in Food and Theatre on the World Stage, Edited by Dorothy Chansky and Ann Folino White. London and New York: Routledge. 2015. 253-269.
• “Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Situating Extratheatrical Employment in the Performance Archive.” in Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor. Edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015: 65-77.
• “The Work of Play in Performance.” [co-authored with Elizabeth A. Osborne] in Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor. Edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015. 1-20.
• “’Playing missionary in Harlem?’: Race, Public Policy, and Birth Control Crusaders in the Harlem Renaissance.” Public Theatres and Theatre Publics, edited by Robert Shimko and Sara Freeman. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2012: 196-206.
•  “Back-Alleys to Basements: Narratives of Class and (Il)legal Abortion on the American Stage” in “To Have or Have Not”: New Essays on Commerce and Capital in Modernist Theatre, Edited by James Fisher. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, Inc., 2011: 184-194.
• “Suzan-Lori Parks and the Traumas of Childhood” Suzan-Lori Parks: Essays on the Plays and Other Works, Edited by Philip C. Kolin. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, Inc., 2010.
• “The Abject of My Affection: The Erotics of Stepmotherhood in Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love and the Wooster Group’s To You, The Birdie (Phèdre).” in Essays and Scripts on How Mothers Are Portrayed in the Theater: A Neglected Frontier of Feminist Scholarship. Eds. Beth Osnes and Anna Andes. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

Other Publications:

• “Holding Open the Door: Alice Childress at the Threshold of American Theatre.” Program note. Trouble in Mind, by Alice Childress. Dir. Preston Lane. The Pyrle Theatre Theatre, Triad Stage, Greensboro, NC, 2-23 Sept, 2012.
• “Ibsen and the ‘Woman Problem.’” Program note. A Doll House, by Henrik Ibsen. Dir. Preston Lane. The Pyrle Theatre Theatre, Triad Stage, Greensboro, NC, 6 Oct--16 Nov, 2011.
•  “Evoking a Region: Playwright, Songwriter Draw Record Audiences with Series of Appalachian-Inspired Musicals.” Southern Theatre 52: 4, Fall 2011: 16-18.

Public Facing Scholarship (see C.V. for specifics):

• Wednesdays @1:00 lectures at Syracuse Stage
• Geneva Historical Society Lectures
• History Tours of The Smith Opera House
• Ghost Light Tours video series

Directing Experience (selected):
Professional Directing:

• Constellations. Bartlett Theater, Durham, NC, March 2019.
• Art v. Activism: A Domestic Dispute; 24 Hour Capital Region / Berkshires Theatre Project (WAM Theatre)
• Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays  (staged reading); Paper Lantern Theatre in association with the Tectonic Theater Project, Greensboro, NC November 2011.
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Theatre 232 (collaborative summer theatre festival between Triad Stage and UNCG Theatre), Greensboro, NC; Summer 2011.
• Almost, Maine; Millbrook Playhouse, Mill Hall, PA. June-July 2007.

College and University Directing:

• Love/Sick. Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. October 2018
• 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. February 2018
• She Kills Monsters. Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. October 2017
• Good Kids. Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. October 2015.
• Radium Girls; Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. April 2014.
• Polaroid Stories; UNCG Theatre, Greensboro, NC, October 2012.
• In the Blood; UNCG Theatre; Greensboro, NC, April 2012.
• The Laramie Project; University Players and Department of Performing Arts, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA. November 2007.
• Machinal; University Players and Department of Performing Arts, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA., November 2006.
• Nickel and Dimed; University Players and Department of Performing Arts, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA., March 2006.
• Vinegar Tom; Bowling Green State University, Spring 2003.
• Tissue; St. Lawrence University, 1998.
• American Voices; St. Lawrence University, 1997, 1998 (part of first year orientation program).       

 Community-Based Directing:

• And Baby Makes Seven; Headless Sullivan Theatre, Geneva, NY. January-February 2014.
• The Guys  (staged reading); Studio B at the Broach (to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and to raise funds for the Greensboro Children’s Museum Fire and Police Exhibit renovation), Greensboro, NC September 2011.
• Jane: Abortion and the Underground; UNCG VOX (in association with the UNCG Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Inc.), Greensboro, NC, October 2009.
• Jane: Abortion and the Underground; Planned Parenthood of Northwest Ohio; Bowling Green, OH, November 2004.
• Gypsy  (Co-Director: Jessica Weaver); Geneva Theatre Guild, Geneva, NY, Summer 2002.
• Haiku for Point of View: An Evening of One-Acts; Geneva Theatre Guild, Geneva, NY, Summer 2001.

Youth Theatre and Theatre for Young Audiences Directing:

• Treasure Island  (an original adaptation by Dominic Orlando); Bristol Valley Theater, Naples, NY; Summer 2010.
• Revenge  (an original devised piece created by the Apprentice Program); Bristol Valley Theater, Naples, NY; July 2010.
• Marmalade Gumdrops  (Co-Director: Emily McAdoo); Nancy Curvin Playground Players, Geneva, NY, Summer 2004.
• The Pushcart War; Geneva Youth Theatre, Geneva, NY, Summer 1999.
• Patchwork (Co-Director: Jessica Weaver); Nancy Curvin Playground Players, Geneva, NY, Summer 1999.
• Heads and Tales  (Co-Director: Jessica Weaver); Nancy Curvin Playground Players, Geneva, NY, Summer 1998.