Miriam Poole
Miriam received her B.A. in Theatre and German from Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. Her research interests include medieval theatre, German romanticism, and the theatrical activities of the Irish Literary Revival. Miriam is from West Chicago, Illinois.
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Carle Gaier
Carle received his B.F.A. in Theatre from Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, and his M.A. in Theatre HIstory, Theory, and Literature from Indiana University. He has also studied Chinese language at the Dalian University of Foreign Languages. His research interests include contermporary Chinese theatre and playwrights. Before coming to IU, Carle worked in production and stage management, having held positions at the Carousel Dinner Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, and the Cleveland Play House.
Eric "C" Heaps
Eric received his B.A. in Theatre Arts Studies and Portuguese from Brigham Young University Provo, Utah, and his M.A. in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature from Indiana University. His research interests include Luso-Brazilian theatre, post-colonialism, hemispheric studies, and Mormon theatre. He has recently presented papers on Theatre of the Oppressed and its Brazilian roots and the establishment of Mormon identity in 19th-century American theatre. In 2012, he directed the world premiere of Brazillian playwright Lucienne Guedes Fahrer’s play, Refusing the Flower, which he also translated. Eric has his own short play published in Out
of the Mount: 19 from New Play Project and is currently working on translating the works of several other Brazilian playwrights for English publication.
Jenna Kate Johnson
Jenna received her B.A. in Theatre, English, and Chinese and Japanese Studies from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, and her M.A. in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature from Indiana University. Her research interests include Shakespeare Studies and Shakespeare Tourism in addition to studies in Classical Japanese Theatre. Prior to beginning her studies at Indiana University, Jenna worked in the literary management office at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, where she also served as the assistant dramaturg for the 2009 world premiere of Year Zero by Michael Golamco. She spent the summer of 2012 studying Costume History in London, Stratford, and Bath.
Deana Nichols
Deana received her B.A. in Theatre and B.A. in English Education from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, and her M.A. in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature at Indiana University. Her research interests center on Scottish theatre from the 1990s to the present and its relation to devolution and post-colonial studies. She has presented on the works of such playwrights as John McGrath, Rona Munro, Sue Glover, and Gregory Burke. A recipient of Indiana University's prestigious College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowship, Deana recently returned from a trip to Edinburgh and Glasgow where she interviewed contemporary Scottish playwrights and directors in addition to conducting archival research.
Timothy A. Pyles
Tim received his B.A. in Philosophy from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and his M.F.A. in acting from Southen Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. His research interests include the use of magic in the Early Modern era, particularly in the plays of Shakespeare. Tim has been a professional actor since 2004 and has appeared regularly with the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival. Tim is from Ontario, Canada.
Justin Rincker
Justin received both his B.A. in Anthropology and English Literature and his M.A. in Drama from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His research interests include the combined work of Tadashi Suzuki and Anne Bogart and the history of movement on the stage, especially in comic performance. Justin's directing and performance credits include productions with Metro Theatre Company, New Jewish Theatre, OnSite Theatre Company, Dramatic License Productions, and HotCity Theatre, all in St. Louis.
Joseph Stollenwerk
Joe received his B.A. in Drama from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and his M.A. in English and M.Ed. from Xavier University in Cincinnati. His dissertation will explore women and the musical of the 1970s and 1980s. Most recently, he presented “‘I Want It All’: Women, Work, and the Musical” at the 2012 Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Conference and “All About Eve: The Creation Myth and the Musical” at the 2013 Comparative Drama Conference. Joe is the author of Today in History: Musicals, and spent nine years as the Artistic Director of Ovation Theatre Company in Cincinnati. His award-winning adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale premiered in 2011 at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and he will direct his new play Catalina at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival in May 2013.
Sara Taylor
Sara received her B.A. in Theatre Studies and French from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and her M.A. in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature from Indiana University. Her research interests include the theatre of war and the role of agit-prop theatre in the creation of collective memory. Sara’s dissertation will focus on resistance groups in post-Soviet Eastern Europe and their successful “restaging” of significant state spaces as sites of public resistance. She recently finished a multi-article project for Cengage Learning's reference collection titled, Literature of War (2012) and contributed an article on theatre as a tool of the socialist revolution for Gale’s forthcoming multi-volume collection, Literature of Propaganda (2013). A recipient of the Theatre and Drama's 2012 Faculty Memorial Award, in 2011 Sara co-chaired “War Making Bodies,” IU's first interdisciplinary conference on theatre and performance studies.
Kyle Davis
Kyle Davis received his B.A. in Theatre from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. His research insterests include discourse analysis at the intersections of folklore, theatre history, and performance studies. He is writing his dissertation on the role of the theatre in Spain in re-negotiating and re-constructing the polity during the radical social and cultural transformations of the 1808-1844 period.
Christopher Hatch
Chris received his B.A. in Theatre Arts from Penn State University and his M.F.A. in Acting and Directing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His research interests include Balinese Theatre, Shakespeare Studies, and Theatre and Absinthe. He recently presented the paper "Green with Madness: Absinthe-Induced Madness and its Use in the Theatre of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries" as part of his dissertation research. A member of the Actors' Equity Association, Chris has been a professional actor for more than a decade and has studied Commedia dell'Arte with Italy's renowned Antonio Fava. Since 2010, Chris has served as Assistant Professor of Theatre at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.
Kim Hinton
Kim received her B.A. in Russian and International Politics from Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, and her M.A. in Russian Literature from Indiana University in Bloomington. Kim's interest in theatre blossomed after studying Russian drama during her Master's degree program. Though she remains interested in both Russian literature and theatre, her dissertation topic explores representations of sideshow freaks in modern British and American musicals and plays. During her Ph.D. coursework, Kim minored in gender studies, and elements of gender/queer/disability studies figure prominently in her research, alongside scholarship on actual, historical freak shows.
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Jess Drew
Jess received her B.A. in Theatre and Art History from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Her research interests include the fat body onstage, the epic, theatre education, contemporary theatre of the Americas, and the performativity of monster truck rallies. Jess has worked in various capacities for the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Vitalist Theatre of Chicago, Northwestern University, and serves as a board member at Goat Song Theatre in Chicago. After completing her master's degree in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature in 2013, she accepted a position in youth theatre education at the Center for Talent Development (CTD) housed at Northwestern University’s School of Education & Social Policy.
Jeff Grace
Jeff received his B.A. in Theatre Arts from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and his M.S. in Education, Curriculum, and Instruction from Indiana University Bloomington. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature from Indiana University in 2008 after defending his dissertation, "Coming Out at the Caffe Cino: Toward a Re/visioning of Homosexual Stage Representation." A winner of IU's Hubert C. Heffner Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Theatre, Jeff currently serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he was recently awarded a Career Enhancement Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Visit Jeff's personal web page»
Sarah McCarroll
Sarah received her B.A. in Theatre from the University of Missouri-Columbia and her M.F.A. in Costume Design from the University of Alabama. She earned her Ph.D. in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature from Indiana University in 2011 when she defended her dissertation, "An Empire of Collars and Corsets: Charting Body Maps on the Late-Victorian Stage." In 2011 she accepted a tenure-track position at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, where she serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre and head of the costume shop.
Noe Montez
Noe received his B.A. in English and Theatre and Dance from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature from Indiana University. His dissertation, "Staging Post-memories: Commemorative Argentine Theatre 1989--2003," discusses memory politics among Argentine theatre artists who subverted institutionalized mandates for forgetting the Dirty War. Noe has served as the Dramaturg at the Cleveland Play House and on faculties at Cleveland State University and John Carroll University. In 2011, he accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Theatre History, Dramatic Literature and Criticism at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
Thomas A. Oldham
Tom received his B.A. in History and English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his M.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Script Development from Columbia University in New York. He earned his Ph.D. in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature from Indiana University in 2012 after defending his dissertation, "Towards a Poetics of Violence: The Early Modern and Postmodern English Stage." Tom's research interests include Early Modern England, Contemporary Britain and Ireland, and Theatre and Violence. He has worked in the Literary Department of the Atlantic Theater Company, and holds multiple credits as a dramaturg, director, sound designer, critic, and actor from theatres in New York, Indiana, and Nebraska.
Thomas Michael Robson
Tom received his B.A.. in Theatre from Grinnell College and his M.A. in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature from Indiana University. He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2010 when he defended his dissertation titled "The Greatest Living Genius of the Race": Henrietta Vinton Davis---Elocutionist, Actress, Activist." In 2010, Tom received a tenure-track position at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, where he serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre and has taught such courses as Directing, Play Analysis, Integrated Theatre History, African-American Dramatic Literature and Theatre. In 2012, Tom received the Millikin's Cesar Chavez Social Justice Award for campus advocacy and activism.
Fatma al Shukaili
Fatma earned her Ph.D. in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature from Indiana University in 2009 when she defended her dissertation on women in Arabian Gulf States theatre. She is currently head of the Department of Theatre in the COllege of Arts and Social Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman where she serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Acting.
Neal Allen Utterback
Neal received his B.A. in Theatre from Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, and his M.F.A. in acting from University of Florida in Gainesville. He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2013 when he defended his dissertation titled “Stagehands: Gestures and the Embodied Actor,” an exploration of how cognitive science can explains actors' use of gestures to memorize lines, disambiguate language, and expand meaning. In 2012, Neal accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Theatre at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. A playwright and theatre-maker, Neal's play second is published in NYTE's Plays and Playwrights 2005. His newest play, American Western, has been invited to premiere at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival in 2013 where Neal was previously nominated for both Outstanding Production and Outstanding New Writing for his 2009 adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture (of Dorian Gray).
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