I'm an Assistant Professor of Theater Studies at Oxford College of Emory University. I completed my Ph.D. in Theatre Arts with a minor in Directing at Cornell University. I earned my M.A. in Theatre Arts from Cornell, and my B.A. magna cum laude in Theatre with a minor in Creative Writing from Hamilton College.
My research and teaching interests are prison studies, trauma theory, acting and directing, performance studies, modern and contemporary drama, adaptation, and storytelling. My most recent articles are published in PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America and Teaching Artist Journal. My other writings are published online in Modernism/modernity, The Theatre Times, Etudes, and Rejoinder. In 2016, I co-curated the symposium, From Cell to Cell: The Prison in Television and Performance.
I'm also a practicing theatre artist. I've directed productions of The Arsonists, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Miss Julie, The Hunger Artist, Titus Andronicus, Friedrich Schiller's Bad Girls Club, and Cornell's annual Ten-Minute Playfest. Spaces in which I performed and/or collaboratively developed new art include: Dixon Place, Walkerspace, Incubator Arts Project (formerly Ontological-Hysteric Theater), HERE Arts Center, Theater for the New City, WorkShop Theater, Producer's Club, and TheaterLAB.
I'm currently revising my dissertation into a monograph for publication, titled Cagecraft: Theatre and Performance in Carceral America. This work draws upon five years’ work as a teaching artist in the Auburn Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Upstate New York, where I co-facilitated a company of incarcerated writers and performers, the Phoenix Players Theatre Group. “Cagecraft” is my term for the process of making theatre in response to imprisonment, a concept which I employ to study a range of modern and contemporary performance objects made with, by, and about incarcerated peoples.
My research and teaching interests are prison studies, trauma theory, acting and directing, performance studies, modern and contemporary drama, adaptation, and storytelling. My most recent articles are published in PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America and Teaching Artist Journal. My other writings are published online in Modernism/modernity, The Theatre Times, Etudes, and Rejoinder. In 2016, I co-curated the symposium, From Cell to Cell: The Prison in Television and Performance.
I'm also a practicing theatre artist. I've directed productions of The Arsonists, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Miss Julie, The Hunger Artist, Titus Andronicus, Friedrich Schiller's Bad Girls Club, and Cornell's annual Ten-Minute Playfest. Spaces in which I performed and/or collaboratively developed new art include: Dixon Place, Walkerspace, Incubator Arts Project (formerly Ontological-Hysteric Theater), HERE Arts Center, Theater for the New City, WorkShop Theater, Producer's Club, and TheaterLAB.
I'm currently revising my dissertation into a monograph for publication, titled Cagecraft: Theatre and Performance in Carceral America. This work draws upon five years’ work as a teaching artist in the Auburn Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Upstate New York, where I co-facilitated a company of incarcerated writers and performers, the Phoenix Players Theatre Group. “Cagecraft” is my term for the process of making theatre in response to imprisonment, a concept which I employ to study a range of modern and contemporary performance objects made with, by, and about incarcerated peoples.
