Current Projects
Applied Theatre and Intercultural Play: Ludic Encounters with Otherness
(A book about culturally diverse groups who come together in theatre-making contexts)
“Performing Protest and Protesting Performance”
(An historical essay about a 1980 production of Waiting for Godot from Cape Town that some anti-apartheid activists hailed as a denunciation of the South African regime and others protested as a piece of pro-apartheid propaganda)
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
“How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes: Maximizing Participation and Managing Risk in the Work of Sojourn Theatre.” Contemporary Theatre Review 28, no. 4 (December 2018).
“Toward a Dramaturgy of Divergence: Remembering 9/11, Fostering Dialogue, and Embracing Dissent” (co-authored with Michael Mellas). Theatre Topics 26, no. 3 (Fall 2016).
“Beating the Daf and Darbuka: Testing the Boundaries of Ethnicity, Evoking a National Imaginary, and Dancing a Contemporary Iraqi Identity.” The Drama Review 60, no. 1 (Spring 2016).
“Rechoreographing Intercultural Encounters: The Power and Limits of Dramatic Play in Segregated Communities.” Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance 21, no. 2 (Spring 2016).
“Replacing the Sofa with the Spotlight: Interrogating the Therapeutic Value of Personal Testimony within Community-Based Theatre.” Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance 17, no. 3 (2012).
Book Chapters
“Bursting the Bubble of Play: Making Space for Intercultural Dialogue.” Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space, eds Megan Lewis and Anton Krueger. Intellect Books, 2016.
Book Reviews
Review of Shulamith Lev-Aladgem, Theatre in Co-Communities: Articulating Power, in Theatre Topics 24, no. 1 (March 2014).
Review of Dani Snyder-Young, Theatre of Good Intentions: Challenges and Hopes for Theatre and Social Change, in Research in Drama Education 19, no. 2 (April 2014).