THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2016
The CDC cannot guarantee that this Itinerary will not change, although we will do everything
possible to minimize any changes.
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Conference Registration
Main Lobby
Conference packets for pre-registered participants are available at the Conference Registration Table in the
Lobby of the Pier 5 Hotel, as is registration for those who have not pre-registered. Events take place in the
conference rooms off the lobby of the Pier 5 Hotel.
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 1
Renaissance Staging Conventions & Props
Harbor West A
Presiding: William Boles (Rollins College)
1. Sunder, Diana. (Boston College)
“’Minding true things by what their mock’ries be’: The Performance of
the Supernatural in Shakespeare.”
2. Craig, Lydia. (Loyola University Chicago)
“’Light, I say, light!’: Iago’s Distortion of Visual Perception in
Othello.”
3. Jacquez, Manuel. (The Ohio State University)
“’Trecherous Instrument[s]’: The Poisonous Properties of English
Renaissance Drama.”
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 2
Theatre & Publishing
Harbor West B
Presiding: Les Essif (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
1. Holtcamp, Victor. (Tulane University)
“’All the Qualities of a Professional Play’: Longmans, Green, and
Company’s Director’s Manuscript.”
2. Kuhn, Justin. (The Ohio State University)
“Reforming Stage and Page: Printing Richard Brome in Cromwellian
England.”
3. Sharifian, Hesam. (Tufts University)
“Henry E. Abbey and Theatrical Publicity in the Gilded Age.”
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 3
Theatre of Southern and Southeast Asia and
Cross-pollinations with the West
Harbor West C
Presiding: Baron Kelly (University of Louisville)
1. Raj, Prithvi. (Kamala Nehru College)
“Ritualised Theatricality in Bharata’s Natyashastra.”
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2. Ramert, Lynn. (Lynn University)
“Dramatic Calls to Nationhood: Radindranath Tagore’s The Post
Office and Patrick Pearse’s The King.”
3. Grote, John. (Baylor University)
“The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth: A
Vietnamese/American Fusion of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 4
Theatre and Education
Harbor East D
Presiding: Miriam M. Chirico (Eastern Connecticut State University)
1. Thurber, Diane Isis. (University of Guam)
“Hamlet: Reaching Across the Pacific Divide.”
2. Gilbert, Richard. (Loyola University Chicago)
“Reading Skeptically: Shakespeare’s Liars and Shakespeare’s Lying.”
3. Hatch, David A. (University of South Carolina)
“’If it fits, I will scream…’: SPROUTS Children’s Theatre, Adaptation,
and Interactive Drama.”
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 5
Black Theatre History
Harbor East E
Presiding: J. Chris Westgate (California State University)
1. Holden, Beck. (Tufts University)
“Signifyin’ Sam: Motivated Signifyin(g) and Future Nostalgia in PostReconstruction Black Musicals.”
2. Kurahashi, Yuko (Kent State University)
“Reclaiming Three Nineteenth-century African American Women’s
Voices and Experiences through Neo-Utopian Visions: Carolyn Gage’s
Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist, Sandra Fenichel Asher’s A
Woman Called Truth, and Lydia Diamond’s Harriet Jacobs.”
3. Sperrazza, Tyler. (Penn State University)
“’No negro shall ever murder a white woman if I can help it’: Othello,
The Clansman, and Racial Violence on the Nineteenth-Century
Stage.”
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10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 6
Staging Race in Turn of the Century
American Theatre
Harbor West A
Presiding: Brittany Proudfoot Ginder (University of Maryland, College
Park)
1. Westgate, J. Chris. (California State University, Fullerton)
“’Wasn’t America Crowded Enough Wid Out You Forriners?:
Immigration, Assimilation, and Social Mobility in From Broadway to
the Bowery.”
2. Shandell, Jonathan. (Arcadia University)
“’Mister Norwood’s Here!’: Langston Hughes’ Mulatto and the
Inversion of the Tragic Mulatto Archetype.”
3. Hughes, Erica. (Virginia Commonwealth University)
“Never ‘Nobody’: The Legacy of Bert Williams.”
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 7
Page, Stage, and Film
Harbor West B
Presiding: Jay Malarcher (West Virginia University)
1. Schwartz, Michael. (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
“’Goodbye Mr. Chips and Hello Mr. Crocker-Harris’: Terrance
Rattigan and the De- and Re-construction of the English
Schoolmaster.”
2. Watson, Ian. (Virginia Commonwealth University)
“The Collective Unconscious vs. Schizoanalytic: The Desire for Fame
in Orchids in the Moonlight and Bronson.”
3. Safadaran, Hossein and Motjaba Safadaran. (University of
Malaya, Malaysia)
“Reception of Edward Albee among Iranians.”
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 8
Shakespeare
Harbor West C
Presiding: Miriam M. Chirico (Eastern Connecticut State University)
1. Stafford, Tony. (University of Texas at El Paso)
“Comedy of Eros: The Erotic Motif in Shakespeare’s Comedy of
Errors.”
2. Boulton, Alexander Ormond. (Stevenson University)
“A Structuralist Analysis of The Merchant of Venice.”
3. Hendricks, Ted. (Stevenson University)
“The Tragedy of Iago: The ‘Status Revolution’ in Shakespeare’s
Othello.”
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10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 9
Re-Writing Gender Power Hierarchies:
Ives, Wertenbaker, and Ukrainka
Harbor East D
Presiding: Ian Andrew MacDonald (Independent Scholar)
1. Falkner, Thomas. (McDaniel College)
“’Hail Aphrodite’: Sexual and Textual Authority in Ives’ Venus in
Fur.”
2. Mihaychuk, George. (Georgetown University)
“The Rhetoric of Conquest in Don Juan by Moliere and by Lesia
Ukrainka.”
3. Hardy, Clara Shaw. (Carleton College)
“Eating Your Children: Shields’ and Wertenbaker’s Procne and
Philomela.”
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 10
20th Century Dramatists and Their Legacies:
Stein, Shaw, and Kanter
Harbor East E
Presiding: Graley Herren (Xavier University)
1. Adam, Jessica. (The Wooster Group)
“Gertrude Stein and the Presence of Landscape as Postdramatic
Theatre.”
2. Giner, Oscar. (Arizona State University)
“A literary biography of George Bernard Shaw from the writings of
Jorge Luis Borges.”
3. Burkart, Jessie. (Brooklyn College)
“Dealing with Death: the Influence of Kantor’s Dead Class on the New
York Theatre Scene.”
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 11
Staging Sophocles
Harbor Club
Presiding: Amy Muse (University of St. Thomas)
1. Hartigan, Karelisa. (University of Florida)
“Old Wine in New Bottles: He Has to Pour the Sherry; How I went
from being a scholar to being a director.”
2. Bandelt, Megan. (Brooklyn College)
“PTSD in Greek Theatre: Bridging the Past and Present.”
3. Long, Jacqueline. (Loyola University Chicago)
“Recovering the Pain of Sophocles’ Ajax.”
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
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1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Session 12
In-Yer-Face: Twenty Years On-Ravenhill, Ridley and McDonagh
Harbor West A
Presiding: Willliam Boles (Rollins College)
1. Saunders, Judith. (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
“Narrative and Nation in Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking.”
2. Oldham, Thomas A. (Independent Scholar)
“Philip Ridley: Still In-Yer-Face.”
3. Boles, William C. (Rollins College)
“Murder Amidst the Chocolates: Martin McDonagh’s Multifaceted
Uses of Death in In Bruges.”
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Session 13
Tennessee Williams
Harbor West B
Presiding: Verna Foster (Loyola University Chicago)
1. Loomis, Jeffrey B. (Northwest Missouri State University)
“Dialogues of Dueling Genres: William’s Streetcar and Rose Tattoo.”
2. Badenes, José I. (Loyola Marymount University)
“Chekhov, Nostalgia and the Beauty of Brokenness in Federico García
Lorca’s Doña Rosita the Spinster and Tennessee Williams’s The Glass
Menagerie.”
3. Lapchak, Elizabeth. (Millersville University)
“Homosexual Ideologies, Interpretations, and Sociopolitical Impact in
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on
National Themes.”
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Session 14
Representing Race
Harbor West C
Presiding: Baron Kelly (University of Louisville)
1. Murphy, Cason. (Baylor University)
“What’s Black, White, and Red All Over?: The Tradition, Taboo, and
Theatricality of Racebending in Brendan Jacobs-Jenkins’ An
Octoroon.”
2. Giroux, Christopher. (Saginaw Valley State University)
“’STEP IN STEP IN/HUR-RY! HUR-RY!’: Repetition and Performance
in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus.”
3. García-Romero, Anne. (University of Notre Dame)
“Innovative Pedagogies in Contemporary Latina/o Writing for Theatre
and Performance.”
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1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Session 15
Theatre Post 9/11
Harbor East D
Presiding: Les Essif (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
1. Barilar, Nic. (The University of Pittsburgh)
“Theatre of Terror: Re-thinking Foucault’s Spectacle of the Scaffold in
Yussef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat.”
2. Running-Johnson, Cynthia. (Western Michigan University)
“Martin Crimp in French Translation: Issues of Culture and
Language.”
3. Adedoyin, Ismaila Rasheed. (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
“Dramaturgy of Violence and Terrorism in Nigeria and the United
States of America: A Comparative Study.”
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Session 16
Reclaiming Lost Feminine Voices
Harbor East E
Presiding: Brittany Proudfoot Ginder (University of Maryland, College
Park)
1. Gardner, Kevan. (Central Washington University)
“Muse on the Margins: The Exclusion of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
from the World Theatre Canon.”
2. Putzel, Steven. (Penn State Wilkes-Barre)
“Georg Kaiser and Two Forgotten Women Pioneers of British
Expressionism.”
3. Michael, Jason J. (Virginia Commonwealth University)
“Laurey Makes Up Our Mind: Challenging a Legacy of
Misinterpretation of Musical Theatre’s Most Enduring Heroine.”
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Session 17
Staged Reading Rehearsal Space
2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 18
In-Yer-Face: Twenty Years On—
Harbor West A
Teaching and Talking About In-Yer-Face Drama
Harbor Club
Presiding: Willliam Boles (Rollins College)
1. Paoletti, Marjorie. (Anne Arundel Community College)
“’And Then I Done Some Children In’: A Decade of Teaching Martin
McDonagh’s Pillowman.”
2. Johnson, Martha. (University of Minnesota)
“If Synge and McDonagh met for a pint…: ‘The West’ of Ireland.”
3. Dotsenko, Elena. (Urals State Pedagogical University)
“In-Yer-Face Theatre’s Impact on Russian ‘New Drama.’”
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2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 19
Bob Dylan and Drama
Harbor West B
Presiding: Graley Herren (Xavier University)
1. Herren, Graley. (Xavier University)
“Subterranean Shakespeare Blues: King Lear and The Basement
Tapes”
2. Reginio, Robert. (Alfred University)
“No Prophet’s Son: Bob Dylan’s Musical Fathers.”
3. Salvucci, Jim. (Stevenson University)
“Bob Dylan -> Persona(e) -> Mask -> Performer -> Renaldo.”
2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 20
Use a Little Body Language:
Reading the Embodied Text on Stage
Harbor West C
Presiding: Brittany Proudfoot Ginder (University of Maryland, College
Park)
1. Proudfoot Ginder, Brittany. (University of Maryland, College
Park)
“B*tches in Britches: Transgressive Representations of Gender
Fluidity On and Off the Eighteenth-Century Stage.”
2. Stollenwerk, Joe. (Indiana University)
“’I’ve Got It All’: On the Twentieth Century as Feminist Camp.”
3. Banalopoulou, Christina. (University of Maryland, College
Park)
“Tragic Bodies and the Body-Politic: Embodying the Political in
Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy and Heinrich Von Kleist’s The Fall of the
Amazons.”
2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 21
Contemporary Theatre and Puppetry
Harbor East D
Presiding: Karelisa Hartigan (University of Florida)
1. Bell, James. (Grand Valley State University)
“The War Horses from Stage to Screen: Divergent Forms of
Storytelling.”
2. Delbridge, Emily. (Brooklyn College)
“Puppet Dramaturgy: Curated vs. Created Work at St. Ann’s
Warehouse.”
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2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 22
Adapting Ibsen and Chekhov
Harbor East E
Presiding: William Hutchings (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
1. Shanahan, Ann M. (Loyola University Chicago)
“A Door Slam for the Twenty-first Century: Considering Space and
Style in Contemporary Staging of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.”
2. Nanney, Nancy. (West Virginia University at Parkersburg)
“An Enemy of the People: Henrik Ibsen’s Ever Relevant and
Adaptable Play.”
3. Beach, David. (West Virginia University)
“Riffling the Classics: A Look at Stupid Fucking Bird and Songbird in
the Context of Chekhov.”
2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 23
NEH Grant Session
Harbor Club
Presiding: Victoria Sams
Victoria Sams, Program Officer in the Education Programs division of the National Endowment for the
Humanities, will hold a forum in which she will present an overview of grant opportunities for scholars,
educators, and organizations. The forum will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. Further
information on NEH grants may be found at http://www.neh.gov/grants/match-your-project. Ms. Sams will
be available for individual consultation, formally and informally, in the Pier 5 Lobby on Friday
afternoon. To arrange an appointment, contact vsam@neh.gov or call (202)606-8283.
4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 24
In-Yer-Face: Twenty Years On—
Sarah Kane: Performance and Reassessment
Harbor West A
Presiding: Willliam Boles (Rollins College)
1. Witt, Robin. (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
“Beyond Blasted: 21st Century Brit Noir in a Chicago Storefront
Theatre Setting.”
2. Mårsell, Maria. (Kulturhuset Stockholm)
“Everything the world throws at me--Sarah Kane and the ethical
subject.”
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4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 25
Writing and Re-Writing Masculinity
Harbor West B
Presiding: Jose Badenes (Loyola Marymount University)
1. Bennett, Rachel Elinor. (University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign)
“American Masculinity in Cold War Theatre: The Zoo Story and True
West.”
2. Taylor, Terrell. (Vanderbilt University)
“The Vernacular Force of ‘Keepin’ it Real’: Black Masculine
Consciousness and Performance in Jean Toomer’s Kabnis and Amiri
Baraka’s The Dutchman.”
3. Baez, Elba Marie Sanchez. (Central Washington University)
“Destroying Christian Masculinity in Sarah Kane’s Blasted.”
4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 26
New Critical Perspectives in Asian American
Harbor West C
Drama: Spectatorship, Globalization, and Racial Politics
Presiding: Yoshiko Fukushima (University of Hawaii at Hilo)
1. Kim, Ju Yon. (Harvard University)
“How the Audience Moves: Spectatorship, Smell, and Social Change in
M. Butterfly.”
2. Bacalzo, Dan. (Florida Gulf Coast University)
“Extreme Actions: Dissent and Mutability in The World of Extreme
Happiness.”
3. Lee, Esther Kim. (University of Maryland)
“Lloyd Suh’s Jesus in India and the Politics of Representing the
Global Youth.”
4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 27
Othello: Race, Gender, and Translation
Harbor East D
Presiding: Tony Stafford (University of Texas at El Paso)
1. Stanley, William Chad. (Wilkes University)
“’The Beast with Three ‘Blacks’”: Shakespeare’s Othello and the
Invention of Racism.
2. Pastorino, Gloria. (Fairleigh Dickinson University)
“Crimes of Passion: Lo Cascio’ Otello as Sicilian Shakespearean
Moor.”
3. Pierce, Ashley. (West Chester University)
“Two Genders Both Alike in Dignity: The Re-gendering of Three of
Shakespeare’s Villains”
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4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 28
French Theatre
Harbor East E
Presiding: J. Chris Westgate (California State University)
1. Essif, Les. (University of Tennessee)
“Contemporary French Drama and the Stupidity of/in the Capitalist
Labor Pool: The Case of Joël Pommerat.”
2. MacDonald, Ian Andrew. (Scholar-at-large)
“Fringe Binge: Spectatorship, Programming and the meta-narratives
of Theatre Festivals.”
3. Wolfe, Rachel M.E. (University of California at Santa Barbara)
“Racine’s Ancients: Paradoxes of Adaptation in the Panegyric
Tradition of French Neoclassicism.”
4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 29
HOW TO TEACH A PLAY:
Exercises for the College Classroom
Harbor Club
Presiding: Miriam Chirico (Eastern Connecticut State University)
and Kelly Younger (Loyola Marymount University)
Panelists:
Join this informal panel of experienced teachers who will be sharing classroom techniques that explore and
illuminate the performative nature of dramatic literature. This lively discussion promises to spill over into
the hotel lobby so participants can enjoy “Crabby Hour” together.
5:15 – 7:30 p.m.
Dinner Break
7:30
Opening Night Reception and Play
Commander
by Mario Correa
Directed by Chelsea Dove
Cast: Mark Scharf (Ned Worley)
Thom Eric Sinn (Richard Gilly)
Jeff Murray (Frank DeSantis)
David Shoemaker (Zachary Maines)
Fiona Ford (Sara Guttman/Jackie Braden)
Crew: Alexandra Patchen
Sound Design: Chelsea Dove
Audio Recording: Lance Lewman
Campaign Logo Design: Stuart Kazanow
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THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2016
Is America ready for a gay President? One ambitious politician is about to find out. But can he prove the
naysayers wrong, or will personal demons—and a troubled partner—scuttle his historic candidacy?
Join your colleagues from the Comparative Drama Conference for our Opening Night Reception.
Beginning at 7:30, there will be a cash bar open in the Harbor Club; come to mingle with fellow attendees
before the 8:00 curtain. Commander received the Baltimore Playwrights Festival Awards for both Best
Play and Best Production and is currently a Semi-Finalist for the 2016 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s
National Playwrights Conference. A Reception with light snacks will follow the performance.
About the playwright, Mario Correa: Born in Santiago, Chile and raised outside Washington, D.C., Mario
Correa worked for a number of years in politics before becoming a playwright. His verbatim political
satire, Tail! Spin!, directed by Tony nominee Dan Knechtges and starring Saturday Night Live vet Rachel
Dratch, played an acclaimed, extended run Off Broadway in 2014-2015. A New York Times “Critics’ Pick,”
Tail! Spin! was nominated for Best Unique Theatrical Experience by the Off-Broadway Alliance, and its
2012 NYC Fringe Festival premiere was a GLAAD Media Awards nominee for Outstanding New York
Theater: Off-Off Broadway. Mario’s follow-up, Commander, won Best Play and Best Production at the
2015 Baltimore Playwrights Festival (Chelsea Dove directed at Baltimore’s Vagabond Players Theatre).
Runner-Up for Arizona Theatre Company’s National Latino Playwriting Award, Commander is a SemiFinalist for the 2016 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference. Mario’s play,
Santa for President, was commissioned by National Public Radio and aired on NPR’s All Things
Considered on Christmas Day, 2015. A recipient of a “BRIClab” artist’s residency from Brooklyn’s BRIC
Arts + Media, Mario has also written for film and television. www.mariocorrea.com
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Conference Registration
Lobby
Conference packets for pre-registered participants are available at the Conference Registration Table in the
Lobby of the Pier 5 Hotel, as is registration for those who have not pre-registered. Events take place in the
conference rooms off the lobby of the Pier 5 Hotel.
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 30
Queering Shakespeare
Harbor West A
Presiding: Ellen Dolgin (Dominican College of Blauvelt)
1. Birkin, Laura. (Millersville University)
“’Thou lov’st me not with the full weight that I love thee’: exploring
Celia’s love for Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As You Like It.”
2. Park, Jihay. (Indiana University)
“Queer Gender in Twelfth Night: Between Words and Bodies.”
3. Shedd, Sally. (Virginia Wesleyan College)
“Cross-Gender Meets Agender: Contemporary Challenges in Staging
Cross-Gender Performance.”
9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Session 31
The 19th Century Stage and Its Influence
Harbor West B
Presiding: Kiki Gounaridou (Smith College)
1. Baldini, Cajsa C. (Arizona State University)
“’Neither man, nor woman, but a human being pure and simple’:
Genre and Gender Bending in the works of CJL Almqvist.”
2. Considine, Kerri Ann. (University of Tennessee)
“Performing Corpses and Guilty Souls: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
Theatrical Bodies and the Performance of Penance.”
3. Poole, Miriam. (Indiana University)
“National Unity through Mythological Drama: The Political
Perspectives of Wagner and Yeats.”
9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Session 32
Identity, Gender, and Trauma:
Harbor West C
Black Subjectivity in Contemporary American Drama
Presiding: Brittany Proudfoot Ginder (University of Maryland, College
Park)
1. Long, Khalid Y. (University of Maryland, College Park)
“Staging Ground Zero: Glenda Dickerson’s Kitchen Prayer Series.”
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2. Ridley, Leticia. (University of Maryland, College Park)
“Searching for Saartjie: Reconstructing Black Womanhood in Suzan
Lori Parks’ Venus.”
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3. Williams, DeRon S. (Texas Tech University)
“Black, Queer, and Coming of Age: Relationship of Religion and
Sexuality in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy.”
9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Session 33
Chinese Theatre and the West
Harbor East D
Presiding: Yoshiko Fukushima (University of Hawaii at Hilo)
1. Li, Weiyu. (Indiana University)
“The Re-Construction of Gender--Masculinized Women’s Body in the
Chinese Model Opera.”
2. Zhang, Wei. (University of Hawaii at Manao)
“Dialectical Contradiction in Postwar Milieu: The Chinese Influence
of Lao Tzu and Mao Tzu Tung’s Philosophy on Bertolt Brecht’s Late
Creation from 1950 to 1954.”
9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Session 34
Theatre and Drama in Higher Ed
Harbor East E
Presiding: William Boles (Rollins College)
1. Barnhart, Addie and Emma Givens. (Quill Theatre and
Virginia Commonwealth University)
“The Commerce of Educational Theatre: Merging Mission and Profit.”
2. Hartman, Danielle. (Virginia Commonwealth University)
“In Pursuit of Women Scientists Through Science Plays.”
3. Zacharia, Katerina. (Loyola Marymount University)
“’Greek Tragedy in Performance’: A Case study for improving student
writing and oral skills.”
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 35
Shakespeare and Human/Nature:
Morality, Science and the Supernatural
Harbor West A
Presiding: Noreen C. Barnes (Virginia Commonwealth University)
1. Insley, Amy D. (Christopher Newport University)
“Shakespeare’s Lessons in Morality in Juvenile Detention.”
2. Barnes, Noreen C. (Virginia Commonwealth University)
“’My Lord is Often Thus’: A Look at Shakespeare’s Epileptics.”
3. Martinez, Amber M. (Virginia Commonwealth University)
“’Find a Day to Massacre Them All’: Seneca’s Phantom Shade as
Shakespeare’s Shadow.”
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10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 36
Sarah Ruhl
Harbor West B
Presiding: Kelly Younger (Loyola Marymount University)
1. Muse, Amy. (University of St. Thomas)
“The Secret Life of Stage Directions in Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth.”
2. Butler, Thomas. (Eastern Kentucky University)
“Remembering with Some Lightness.”
3. Goff, Jennifer. (Frostburg Stage University)
“Out of the Dollhouse: The Fleeing Housewife on the 21 st Century
Stage.”
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 37
The Modernists and Drama:
Miller, Eliot, Wilder
Harbor West C
Presiding: Jeffrey Loomis (Northwest Missouri State University)
1. Aziz, Aamir. (University of the Punjab Lahore Pakistan)
“Theatre as a Platform for ‘Parrhesiastic Game’ in Arthur Miller’s
The Crucible: A Play Waiting for an Occasion.”
2. Scott, Maria M. (Randolph-Macon College)
“The Powers and the Furies: T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral as a
Re-enactment of Aeschylus’s The Eumerides.”
3. Brown, Mitch. (University of Cincinnati)
“Terrence, Wilder, and Saturated Characterization.”
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 38
Musical Agendas: Strindberg, Brecht
and Kushner
Harbor East D
Presiding: Verna Foster (Loyola University Chicago)
1. Bogar, Brigitte. (York University)
“Musical Strindberg--the soundscape of Ett Drömspel and
Spöksonaten.”
2. Feldman, Alex. (University of Haifa)
“’Here in death’s court, judged by death’s slaves’: The Anti-Fascist
Verse Plays of Stephen Spender and Bertolt Brecht.”
3. Almquist, Justin. (Milwauke Repertory Theatre)
“Confronting Terezín: A Production History of Maurice Sendak and
Tony Kushner’s Brundibar.”
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10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 39
Checking Time: New Temporalities in Drama,
Theatre, and Performance
Harbor East E
Presiding: Stratos E. Constantinidis (The Ohio State University)
1. Nahm, Kee-Yoon. (Yale School of Drama)
“(Un)dramatic Deaths in Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s Roman
Tragedies.”
2. Hagens, Jan L. (Yale University)
“The Moment as Attempted Transgression of Temporal Limits: OverReaching in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Goethe’s Faust.”
3. Friedman, Andrew. (CUNY)
“Out of Time, In Performance: Staging Henrik Ibsen’s Mythopoeic
Time in Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s Ibsen-Saga.”
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 40
Staged Reading
Harbor Club
Upstate
Author: Julie Lewis
Director: Ryan Clark
Cast: TBA
Dramaturg: Janna Segal
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Session 41
CDC Board Meeting
Chesapeake Room
Board Members Only
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Session 42
Plenary Panel
Harbor Club
Author Meets Critics
Presiding
Jay Malarcher
(West Virginia University)
The Author
Ellen Dolgin
(Dominican College of Blauvelt)
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The Book
Shaw and the Actresses Franchise League: Staging Equality
(McFarland)
The Critics
Ann Shanahan
(Loyola University Chicago)
Christopher Innes
(York University)
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Awarding of The 2015 Anthony Ellis Prize for the Best Paper by a Graduate Student
at the 2015 Comparative Drama Conference
Presiding: Graley Herren
Awarded to
Lydia Craig (Loyola University Chicago)
for
“Politic Silence: Female Choruses in Lochhead’s Medea and Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale.”
3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 43
Tony Kushner's Angels in America:
Generic, Historical, and Cultural Contexts
Harbor West A
Co-Sponsored by ATDS
Presiding: Verna A. Foster (Loyola University Chicago)
1. Foults, Coralyn. (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
“The Historical Drama as Genre: The Case of Tony Kushner’s Angels
in America.”
2. Anderson, Virginia. (Connecticut College)
“On Either Side of Angels: Depicting AIDS on Broadway.”
3. Kanter, Jodi. (George Washington University)
“’What are you doing in my hallucination?’: Kushner’s Unwelcome
Visitors.”
3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 44
Tragedy and the Absurd
Harbor West B
Presiding: Lincoln Konkle (The College of New Jersey)
1. Bianchini, Natka. (Loyola University Maryland)
“Birth Astride a Grave: The Unity of Time Where Tragedy Meets the
Absurd.”
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2. Marino, Kate and Stephen Marino. (NYC Department of
Education; St. Francis College)
“A View From the Bridge: The Absurdity of Tragedy.”
3. Palmer, David. (Massachusetts Maritime Academy)
“Tragedy, the Self, and Confrontation with the Absurd: Arthur Miller,
Marsha Norman, and David Lindsay-Abaire.”
3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 45
Issues of Class in Contemporary Drama
Harbor West C
Presiding: William Hutchings (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
1. Gothard, J. Andrew. (University of Miami)
“Bishops and Bar Brawls: Roddy Doyle’s Brownbread and War.”
2. Higgins, Jeanmarie. (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
“Domesticity and the Disappearing Class in Wallace Shawn’s The
Designated Mourner.”
3. Innes, Christopher. (York University, Toronto)
“Challenging the Standard Views of Contemporary British Society:
Plays by Simon Stephens.”
3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 46
Creating Cultural Identity: Nationalism in
Modern and Contemporary Theatre
Harbor East D
Presiding: Kiki Gounaridou (Smith College)
1. Nichols, Deana. (Independent Scholar)
“Scotland without Walls: Place and Identity in the National Theatre of
Scotland.”
2. Ramis, A. Gabriela. (Olympic College)
“Outsiders and Builders of Cultural Identity: Teatro de los Andes as a
Lieu de Mémoire.”
3. Sheets, Ryan. (University of Iowa).
“’This was not history. It has not passed’: Examining John Arden &
Margaretta D’Arcy’s The Non-Stop Connolly Show and the Easter
Rising Centenary.”
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 47
Staging Identity: The Performance of Selfhood
within Theatricalized Communities
Harbor East E
Presiding: Jose Badenes (Loyola Marymount University)
1. Jannarone, Kimberly. (University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Forming Identity: Synchronized Bodies in Prague’s Mass
Gymnastics.”
2. O’Malley, Charles. (Yale School of Drama)
“Reclaiming Homosexual Intimacy in a World beset by AIDS:
Affection, Immorality, and Community in Robert Chesley’s Jerker"
3. Sibert, Ariel. (Yale School of Drama)
“Whose Body?: Absence, Presence, and Identity in Lauri Anderson and
Mohammed Al-Gharani’s Habeus Corpus.”
3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 48
Staged Reading
Harbor Club
Still Point
Author: Mark Scharf
Director: Chelsea Dove
Cast: TBA
Dramaturg: Janna Segal
4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 49
Beckett
Harbor West A
Presiding: Jan Lüder Hagens (Yale University)
1. Adams, Lindsay. (The Catholic University of America)
“Stage Directions and the Absurd: Interaction between Reader and
Play Script in Rhinoceros and Waiting for Godot.”
2. Phillips, Doug. (University of St. Thomas)
“Trying to Understand Adorno Trying to Understand Endgame.”
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4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 50
Experimenting with Time in Contemporary
Feminist Theatre
Harbor West B
Presiding: William Boles (Rollins College)
1. Park, Haeri. (University of Tennessee)
“The Transformation as ‘Becoming’ in Caryl Churchill’s The Striker.”
2. Moll, Ellen. (Michigan State University)
“Time, Space, and Identity in Sun Mee Chomet’s Asiamnesia and
Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls.”
3. Moriarty, Julia. (Wayne State University)
“Monumental Time as Script Analysis.”
4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 51
Renaissance Theatre
Harbor West C
Presiding: Tony Stafford (University of Texas at El Paso)
1. Horowitz, Joshua. (Baylor University)
“Wizards, Dragons, and Evil Queens: Depictions of the Female and
Queen Elizabeth in The Misfortunes of Arthur (1587) and The Birth
of Merlin (1612).”
2. Kendall, George. (Mary Baldwin College)
“The War of the Romeos: Concurrent Romeo and Juliet productions
at Drury Lane and Covent Garden in 1750 London.”
3. Krumrie, Cody W. (Purdue University)
“A Spectrum of Authority: Performing Sovereignty in A King and No
King.”
4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 52
Classical Greek Drama
Harbor East D
Presiding: Elizabeth Scharffenberger (Columbia University)
1. Constantinidis, Stratos E. (The Ohio State University)
“The Broadhead Hypothesis.”
2. Leitao, David D. (San Francisco State University)
“Achilles in Love: Aeschylus’ Myrmidons and its Reception in Plato.”
3. Munteanu, Dana L. (Ohio State University)
“‘Resurrection’ after False Death in Classical Greek Drama.”
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4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 53
Adapting Familiar Narratives in
Contemporary American Theatre
Harbor East E
Presiding: Jeffrey Loomis (Northwest Missouri State University)
1. Hutchings, William. (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
“To Catch the Conscience of the Queen: Michael Laurence’s Hamlet
in Bed.”
2. Pattillo, Laura Grace. (Saint Joseph’s University)
“You don’t just live it, but you watch yourself living it: Looking in the
Rear View in Fun Home, How I Learned to Drive and The Glass
Menagerie.”
3. van den Berg, Elizabeth and Jensen Toperzer. (McDaniel
College)
“Theatre as a lens for history: Hamilton and Richard II.”
4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 54
Thornton Wilder: Shakespeare, Roman Comedy,
Greek Tragedy, and other Intertextualities
Harbor Club
A Round-Table Sponsored by the Thornton Wilder Society
Moderator: Jackson R. Bryer (University of Maryland, College Park)
Panelists:
Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland, College Park)
Lincoln Konkle (The College of New Jersey)
Michael Olmert (University of Maryland, College Park)
Stephen Rojcewicz (University of Maryland, College Park)
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
8:00 p.m.
Harbor West A, B & C
2016 Keynote Event:
A Conversation with
Tony Kushner
Welcome:
President Kevin Manning
(Stevenson University)
A Conversation with Tony Kushner
Interviewed by Jim Fisher
(University of North Carolina Greensboro)
Join the Comparative Drama Conference for our Keynote Event and Reception
welcoming Tony Kushner, recipient of the 2013 National Medal of Arts from President
Obama. Kushner is best known for his two-part epic Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia
on National Themes, which received both the Pulitzer Prize and two Tony Awards. His
other plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Homebody/Kabul; The Intelligent
Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures; and the
book for Caroline, or Change, for which he earned the London Drama Critics’ Circle
Award and the Laurence Olivier Award. Kushner wrote the screenplays for Nichols’s
film of Angels in America and Spielberg’s Lincoln; the latter was nominated for an
Academy Award and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award, Boston Society of
Film Critics Award, and the Chicago Film Critics Award.
9:30 p.m.
Reception
Harbor Club
All conference participants are invited to join us for a reception with Tony Kushner, hosted by the
Comparative Drama Conference Board and sponsored by Stevenson University. Please join us for hors
d’oeuvres, a cash bar, and a magnificent view of the Inner Harbor from the Pier 5 Hotel’s Harbor Club.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016
8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Conference Registration
Lobby
Conference packets for pre-registered participants are available at the Conference Registration Table in the
Lobby of the Pier 5 Hotel, as is registration for those who have not pre-registered. Events take place in the
conference rooms off the lobby of the Pier 5 Hotel.
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 55
Contemporary American Drama:
Nottage, Congdon, and Joseph
Harbor West A
Presiding: Kelly Younger (Loyola Marymount University)
1. Maley, Patrick. (Centenary College of New Jersey)
“Women’s Blues: Lynn Nottage after August Wilson”
2. Love, Lauren. (University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County)
“Mourning the Modernist Subject in Postmodern Contexts: Tales of
the Lost Formicans in an emergence and immersion of a paradigm
shift.”
3. Wetmore, Kevin J. (Loyola Marymount University)
“You can take the Catholic out of the Church, But…: Rajiv Joseph’s
Catholic Dramaturgy.”
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 56
August Wilson and Amiri Baraka
Harbor West B
Presiding: Baron Kelly (University of Louisville)
1. Gilliams, Teresa. (Albright College)
“The Black Aesthetic in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and
Gone and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
2. Lockhart, Paula O. and Johnny L. Jones. (University of
Louisville)
“How Much Woman Am I: The Redefinition of Womanhood through
the Chthonic Realm in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.”
3. Kern, Douglas. (University of Maryland, College Park)
“Invisible Men: Mirroring DuBois in Amiri Baraka’s Most Dangerous
Man in America.”
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 57
Intertextuality and Interdisciplinarity in
Contemporary American Theatre
Harbor West C
Presiding: Amy Muse (University of St. Thomas)
1. Gillman, Denise. (Christopher Newport University)
“The Dark Story of DNA: Staging the complex theatrical devices in
Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51.”
2. Watson, Ariel. (Saint Mary’s University)
“Apocalypse Masque: Post-electric Theatricality in Mr Burns.”
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3. Kafetzi, Eleni. (University of Sorbonne Nouvelle)
“Interdisciplinarity and improvisation in live performance: A
conversation between the visual and the performing arts.”
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 58
Euripidean Tragedy as Sociocultural Resource
Medea and Phoenician Women
Harbor East D
Presiding: Karelisa Hartigan (University of Florida)
1. Tatum, James. (Dartmouth College)
“Virgil Thomson and Countee Cullen’s Medea.”
2. Foster, Verna A. (Loyola University Chicago)
“Mother Medea and Her Children.”
3. Scharffenberger, Elizabeth. (Columbia University)
“Spoiled Royals in the City of Cadmus: Stephen Gridley’s PostOedipus and Martin Crimp’s The Rest Will Be Familiar To You From
Cinema.”
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 59
The Working Class takes Center Stage:
Plays by Lee Hall, Arthur Miller, Sean O’Casey
And Naomi Wallace
Harbor East E
Presiding: William Hutchings (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
1. Anderson, Douglas. (Caldwell University)
“Enacting Worlds: Oppression, Hope and Performance in Two Plays
by Naomi Wallace.”
2. Verrone, Trish. (Caldwell University)
“The Personal and the Political: Working Class Issues in Sean
O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy.”
3. Lindroth, Mary. (Caldwell University)
“The Work of Art in Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge and Lee
Hall’s The Pitmen Painters.”
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 60
Eugene O’Neill Society Meeting
Harbor Club
Presiding: J. Chris Westgate (California State University, Fullerton),
President of the Eugene O’Neill Society
This meeting is open to all interested parties.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016
10:30-11:45 a.m. Session 61
Plenary Session
Harbor Club
Representations of Eugene O’Neill:
Fiction, Autobiography, and Adaptation
A Round-Table Discussion with Tony Kushner
Sponsored by the Eugene O’Neill Society
Presiding:
J. Chris Westgate (California State University, Fullerton), President of the Eugene O’Neill Society
David Palmer (Massachusetts Maritime Academy)
Panelists:
Jackson R. Bryer (University of Maryland)
Robert M. Dowling (Central Connecticut State University)
Jeffery Kennedy (Arizona State University)
William Davies King (University of California, Santa Barbara), Editor of Eugene O’Neill Review
Tony Kushner
Beth Wynstra (Babson College)
The life and dramas of Eugene O’Neill have been thoroughly intertwined, creating a complex
image of the playwright in the popular imagination. Panelists in this discussion will consider how
this image has been created through intermingled and evolving portraits in letters, theatre
reviews, biography, fiction, film, opera, and adaptions of O’Neill’s own plays. The session will
conclude with 25 minutes of open discussion with the audience.
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Session 62
CDC Board Meeting
Chesapeake Room
Board Members Only
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Session 63
Plenary Session
Harbor Club
In Honor of the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's Death
The Comparative Drama Conference Presents
Early Modern to Postmodern Shakespeares: Three Approaches
to the Staging of Romeo and Juliet
Presiding: Janna Segal (Mary Baldwin College) and Verna Foster (Loyola University Chicago)
Directors James Keegan (University of Delaware), Baron Kelly (University of Louisville), and
Doreen Bechtol (Mary Baldwin College) will demonstrate three different approaches to staging
the meeting of Romeo and Juliet: Cue Scripts; Meisner/Laban; and Viewpoints
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SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016
Awarding of The Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award
Presiding: Kevin Wetmore (Loyola Marymount University)
The 2016 Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award Winner:
Name
Title
This year the selection committee consisted of Chairperson Kevin Wetmore (Loyola Marymount
University), Frederick Ahl (Cornell University), Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle), Mary-Kay
Gamel (University of California, Santa Cruz), Kiki Gounaridou (Smith College), Karelisa Hartigan
(Emerita, University of Florida), Donald Lateiner (Ohio Wesleyan University), Gonda van Steen
(University of Florida), and Kelly Younger (Loyola Marymount University). The CDC Board would like
to extend its gratitude to the committee for their service.
The selection committee thanks those who nominated essays for this year’s award and strongly encourages
nominations for next year’s award.
Call for Nominations: The 2017 Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award
The Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award in 2017 will be given to the best
comparative essay on any aspect and period of Greek drama or theatre that was published in English in any
journal in any country between January 1 and December 31, 2016. The award was established in 2006 in
memory of Philadelphia Constantinidis to encourage research and writing on Greek drama and theatre. This
is an open rank competition for academics, independent scholars, and doctoral students. The award is
administered by the Board of the Comparative Drama Conference. The Board solicits nominations and selfnominations for this award. The winner will be notified by the Director of the Comparative Drama
Conference, and will be offered complimentary hotel accommodations and a registration fee waiver to
attend the 41st Comparative Drama Conference. The winner will also receive a check of one thousand
dollars ($1,000) during the awards ceremony at the conference in 2017. The deadline for nominations is
December 31, 2016. Nominating letters and electronic copies of the essays (converted to Adobe PDF)
should be emailed to Kevin.Wetmore@lmu.edu by December 31, 2016. Postal mail and faxes are not
acceptable. The letter of nomination should include the name of the author of the published essay, the title
of the essay, the year of publication, the name of the journal, the email address and postal address of the
author, and a brief statement explaining why this essay was chosen for nomination. Recipients of the
award are not eligible for nomination or self-nomination for a three-year period.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016
3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 64
Deranged Humor:
The Comedic Plays of Christopher Durang
Harbor West A
Presiding: Miriam Chirico (Eastern Connecticut State University)
1. Chirico, Miriam. (Eastern Connecticut State University)
“From Grand Guignol to the Grotesque: Black Humor in Durang’s
Comedies.”
2. Combs, Robert. (The George Washington University)
“’T’Aint’s Funny, Magee’: The Laugh Track People in Betty’s
Summer Vacation.”
3. Malarcher, Jay. (West Virginia University)
“The Marriage of Parody and Satire: Christopher Durang’s Comedic
Style.”
3:15 – 4:30 p. m. Session 65
Modifying the Meaning: Corporeality,
Harbor West B
Sustainability, and Dramatic Strategy in Chekhov's Plays
Presiding: Verna Foster (Loyola University Chicago)
1. Ignatieva, Maria. (The Ohio State University-Lima)
“Hamlet as a Dramatic Strategy in Chekhov’s The Seagull.”
2. Muza, Anna. (UC-Berkeley)
“Reality and Corporeality in Chekhov’s Drama.”
3. Rylkova, Galina. (University of Florida)
“From Ivanov to Uncle Vanya: The Drama of Sustainability in
Chekhov’s Plays.”
3:15 – 4:30 p. m. Session 66
Medieval Plays and their Contemporary
Incarnations
Harbor West C
Presiding: Graley Herren (Xavier University)
1. Wronski-Mayersak, Corey. (McDaniel College)
“On Skeletons and Souls: Representing Death in Late Medieval
Drama.”
2. Brown, Aaron. (Baylor University)
“The Holy Land Experience: Where You Too Can Experience the
Crucifixion.”
3. Michael, Nancy M. (The Catholic University of America)
“’It’s What You Leave Behind’: The Paper Salvations of Everyman
and The Pillowman.”
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SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016
3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 67
LGBT Identity
Harbor East D
Presiding: Ellen Dolgin (Dominican College of Blauvelt)
1. Marks, Melinda. (Mary Baldwin College)
“Three Faces of Destiny: An Analysis of the Modern Medea Figure on
the American Stage.”
2. Chizek, Nicholas. (Arizona State University)
“Bedazzling the Border: Drag Performance, Gender and Border
Identity.”
3. Nesmith, Nathaniel G. (Middlebury College)
“Eric Bentley’s Identity Politics: Letters during the early phase of the
Gay Rights Movement.”
3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 68
A Theatre Journey from Japan to China:
Part One
Harbor East E
Presiding: Yoshiko Fukushima (University of Hawaii at Hilo)
Respondent: Kevin Wetmore (Loyola Marymount University)
1. Rodman, Tara. (Northwestern University)
“At The Hawk’s Well and the Dance Poem Movement in Japan.”
2. Fukushima, Yoshiko. (University of Hawaii at Hilo)
“Masuda Tarō Kaja and Mori Ritsuko’s The High Speed Comedy.”
3. Quinn, Aragorn. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
“Senda Koreya’s Laughing Letter and the Aesthetics of Defeat.”
3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 69
Staged Reading
American Outlaws
Author: Adam Seidel
Director: Michael Curry
Cast: TBA
Dramaturg: Brittany Proudfoot Ginder
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SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016
4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 70
Never Finding Neverland: Adolescence on
Trial in American Performance
Harbor West A
Presiding: Nathaniel Nesmith (Middlebury College)
1. Cizmar, Elizabeth M. (Tufts University)
“’A Chain of Shackles’: Ernie McClintock, Black Masculinity and
Equus.”
2. DiCintio, Matt. (Tufts University)
“’Nature Has Deprived This Young Lady of the Use of Her Hands’:
The Virtues of the Armless Woman in the Early Republic.”
3. Smolos, Jennifer. (New York University)
“’Worlds Apart’: The Hermeneutics of Difference in Spring
Awakening and Big River.”
4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 71
G. B. Shaw
Harbor West B
Presiding: Tony Stafford (University of Texas at El Paso)
1. Cameron, Rebecca. (DePaul University)
“Risky Business: Gambling and Investment Culture in Shaw,
Granville-Barker, and Sowerby.”
2. Brown, Jeffrey M. (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia)
“A ‘Monster of Illiteracy’: Pygmalion and the Politics of Reading.”
3. Tackett, Justin. (Stanford University)
“’A new art’: The Unspeakable in George Bernard Shaw’s Plays
Unpleasant.”
4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 72
Shakespeare’s Classical and Medieval Influences Harbor West C
Presiding: Ian Andrew MacDonald (Independent Scholar)
1. Dodson-Robinson, Eric. (West Chester University of
Pennsylvania)
“’Thy Father’s Spirit’: Seneca’s Haunting of Hamlet.”
2. Garganourakis, John. (Mercy College)
“A Hedonists’ Guide to Love and Murder: Celebrating the Grotesque
in Shakespeare’s Early Roman Plays.”
3. Williams, Mary Frances. (Independent Scholar)
“The Demonic in Shakespeare’s Richard III and Athanasius’s Life of
Antony.”
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SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016
4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 73
Modern and Contemporary American Theatre
through the Lens of Baudrillard
Harbor East D
Presiding: Stratos Constantinidis (The Ohio State University)
1. Streufert, Paul D. (University of Texas at Tyler)
“Spirits and Simulacra: Discerning the Real and the Fake in Eugene
O’Neill’s Where the Cross is Made.”
2. Knox, A. J. (Platt College)
“Reanimating the Past: Adaptation and Cultural Cannibalism in Mr.
Burns: A Post-Electric Play.”
3. Meier, Inga. (Stephen F. Austin State University)
“’Different Desert, Same War’: Hyperreality, the Imaginary, and
Drone Warfare in George Brant’s Grounded and Good Kill (Niccol,
2014).”
4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 74
A Theatre Journey from Japan to China:
Part Two
Harbor East E
Presiding: Yoshiko Fukushima (University of Hawaii at Hilo)
Respondent: Kevin Wetmore (Loyola Marymount University)
1. Zhao, Sophia. (Stanford University)
“From Adaptation to Liberation: Hong Shen’s Left-Wing Political
Theater in the 1930s.”
2. Zheng , Gouhe. (Ball State University)
“The Orphan of Zhao and Beyond: A Study of Chinese Ideal of
Loyalty.”
4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 75
Staged Reading
Con(vict) 12
Author: Raymond Hardie
Director: Judith Dolan
Cast: TBA
Dramaturg: Janna Segal
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