Recent Publications

  • Laura Edmondson

    "Faustin Linyekula and the Violence of Plague." Theatre Journal (December 2020): 405-423.

    "The Fabulous Pan-Africanism of Binyavanga Wainaina." GLQ 26.3 (June 2020): 529-560.

    "Anti-Homosexual Acts on Trial: The Poetics of Justice in Uganda." TDR 63.2 (Summer 2019): 6-33.

    Performing Trauma in Central Africa: Shadows of Empire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.

    Forged in Fire by Okello Kelo Sam, Laura Edmondson, and Robert Ajwang. Voorhees Theatre in Brooklyn, NY. 2015.

    "Uganda Is Too Sexy: Reflections on Kony 2012." TDR 56.3 (Fall 2012). 10-17.

    Forged in Fire (play). By Okello Kelo Sam, Laura Edmondson, and Robert Ajwang. Excerpted in Refugee Performance: Practical Encounters. Ed. Michael Balfour. Bristol, UK and Chicago: Intellect Books and the University of Chicago Press, 2012. 61-66.

    Eat Like a Bird (play). In Cultural Conversations: Works in Progress, Writers in the Making, ed. Susan B. Russell (Lemont, PA: Eifrig Publishing, 2011), 91-132. 

    "Confessions of a Failed Theatre Activist: Intercultural Encounters in Uganda and Rwanda." In Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical, edited by Mike Sell.  Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 41-59.

    "Genocide Unbound: Erik Ehn, Rwanda, and an Aesthetics of Discomfort," Theatre Journal, 61:1 (March 2009): 65-83.

    Review essay: "Performing Africa."  African Affairs 109 (2009): 151-160.

    "The Poetics of Displacement and the Politics of Genocide in Three Plays about Rwanda," in Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict, edited by Patrick Anderson and Jisha Menon.  Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.  54-78.

    Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage, Indiana University Press, 2007.

    "Of Sugarcoating and Hope," TDR, 51:2 (May 2007): 7-10.

    "Marketing Trauma and the Theatre of War in Northern Uganda," Theatre Journal, 57:3 (2005): 451-474.

    "Love in the Time of Dissertations: An Ethnographic Tale," with R O Ajwang, Qualitative Inquiry, 9:3 (June 2003): 466-480.

  • Peter Hackett

    Director, The Play That Goes Wrong, Northern Stage, 2004

    Director, The Sweet Science of Bruising, (American premiere), Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, 2020

     

     

     

    Director, Orwell in America (world premiere), Northern Stage, VT (2015) and 59E59 Theater, NYC  (2016)

    Artistic Director, The Cleveland Play House, 1994-2004 

    Director, Twelve Angry Men, Hungarian National Theater, Miskolc and the Pecs National Theater Festival (2000)

  • Jamie Horton

    Actor, George Orwell in Orwell in America, 59E59 Theaters, New York City, dir. Peter Hackett (2016)

    Actor, Our Town, Northern Stage, White River Junction, VT, dir. Carol Dunne  (2015)

    Actor, George Orwell in Orwell in America, Northern Stage, White River Junction, VT, dir. Peter Hackett (2015)

    Actor, 12 Angry Men, Northern Stage, White River Junction, VT, dir. Malcolm Morrison  (2013)

    Actor, Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, dir. Steven Spielberg  (2012)

    Actor, The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl, Denver Center Theatre Company, Denver, CO, dir. Wendy Goldberg  (2006)

    Director, Fiction by Steven Dietz, Curious Theatre Company, Denver, CO  (2006)

    Director, The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH  (2005)

    Director, Slabtown by Steven Cole Hughes, Denver Center Theatre Company, Denver, CO  (2005)

    Screenwriter, A Rumor of Angels, starring Vanessa Redgrave, MGM/UA  (2002)

  • Dan J. Kotlowitz

    Lighting Designer: Romeo and Juliet, Hartford Stage, 2025

    Lighting Designer, A Doll's House, Huntington Theatre Company 2017

    Lighting Designer, King Lear, Northern Stage 2019

    Lighting Designer, The Skin of Our Teeth, Berkshire Theatre Festival, 2019

    Lighting Designer, Faithful Cheaters, Trinity Repertory Company, 2017

    Lighting and Projection Designer: DRACULA, Berkshire Theatre Festival, 2022

    Lighting and Projection Designer, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, Northern Stage, 2016

    Lighting and Projection Designer: Photograph 51, Berkshire Theater Festival, 2023

    Projection Designer, Esai's Table, Cherry Lane Theater, NY and JAG 2019-2020

    Lighting and Projection Design, Beauty and the Beast, Northern Stage 2024

  • Mara Beth Sabinson

    Mara B. Sabinson

    Director, One Flea Spare , by Naomi Wallace, Dartmouth College.

    Director, Something in the Air , by Richard Dresser, Dartmouth College.

    Director, Twelfth Night , by William Shakespeare, Dartmouth College.

    Reading, Third , by Wendy Wasserstein, Dartmouth College.

    Actress, The Good Person of Setzuan , Wu Wei Theater of Frankfurt, U.S. tour.

  • Analola Santana (she/her/ella)

    Books:

    Teatro y Cultura de Masas: Encuentros y Debates. México: Escenología, 2010.

    Freak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theatre. Forthcoming, University of Michigan Press, November 2018.

    Edited Volumes:

    With Jimmy Noriega, eds. Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2018.

    With Sara Muñoz, eds. Special Issue of Hispanic Issues Online: Freakish Encounters: Constructions of the Freak in Hispanic Cultures. Forthcoming, Spring 2018.

    With Paola Hernández, eds. Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre. London: Routledge, 2022.

    With Michael Chemers, eds. Monsters in Performance: Essays on the Aesthetics of Social Disqualification. London: Routledge, 2022.

    Articles:

    "¿Dónde está el paraíso?: Este cuerpo mío de Mariana Villegas y el afecto corporal." Religación 8.35 (January-March 2023): https://revista.religacion.com/index.php/religacion/issue/view/36.

    "Neoliberal Transactions: Stating Prostitution in the Mexican Nation." Theatre Journal 74 (2022): 129-49.

    "The Projection of the Self in Latin American Performance Art." Latin American Literature in Transition. Volume V: 1980-2017. Debra Castillo and Mónica Szurmuk, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge UP: 2022.

    "Los circuitos de la invisibilidad. Performance, violencia y sexualidad." Perspectivas políticas de la escena latinoamericana. Diálogos en tiempo presente. Eds. Lola Proaño-Gómez and Lorena Verzero. Buenos Aires/Los Angeles: Argus-a Artes y Humanidades, 2017. 135-148.

    "Theatre and Mass Culture: Pedagogical Tools for Stimulating Critical Thinking." Latin American Theatre Review 50.1 (Fall 2016): 191-204.

    "Circuits of Invisibility: Performance, Violence, and Sexuality" Lateral, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. (5.2, Fall 2016).

    "Desesperanza en el porvenir: Reflexiones sobre la puesta en escena de Amores de Cantina de Juan Radrigán." Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana 45.2 (November 2016): 150-166.

    With Claudio Valdés Kuri. "Between Pen and Sweat: An Account of an Experience between a Director and a Dramaturg" Theatre Topics 26.1 (March 2016): 131-40.

    "Teatro Latino en los Estados Unidos: La estética teatral de Migdalia Cruz." Cuadernos de Literatura 37 (January-June 2015).

    "Vida del proyecto." Monstruos y prodigios. La historia de los castrati: Recuento de un proyecto teatral inclasificable. Ed. Leonel Sagahón. México: CONACULTA (2014). 45-57.

    "Una apuesta por el teatro." Revista Paso de Gato 10.51 (2012): 86-88.

    "Transgresiones femeninas o cómo Jesusa Rodríguez encontró el cuerpo de Sor Juana."  Revista Letras Femeninas 38.1 (2012): 55-69.

    "Una máquina teatral: Forma e identidad en el teatro de Migdalia Cruz." Latin America Theatre Review 43.1 (2009): 103-120. 

    "Una cuestión de gustos: hacia una crítica teatral de la ética del consumo en Misa en Los Pinos de Jesusa Rodríguez."  KARPA: Dissident Theatricalities, Visual Arts, and Culture.  (January 2009).  Online: <http://www.calstatela.edu/misc/karpa/Karpa2.1/Site%20Folder/index.html>.