THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2016
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8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Conference RegistrationMain 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 1Renaissance Staging Conventions & PropsHarbor 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 2Theatre & PublishingHarbor 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 3Theatre of Southern and Southeast Asia andHarbor West C
Cross-pollinations with the West
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.”
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.Session 4Theatre and EducationHarbor 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 5Black Theatre HistoryHarbor East E
Presiding: J. Chris Westgate (California State University)
1. Holden, Beck. (Tufts University)
“Signifyin’ Sam: Motivated Signifyin(g) and Future Nostalgia in Post-Reconstruction 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 6Staging Race in Turn of the CenturyHarbor West A
American Theatre
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 7Page, 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 8ShakespeareHarbor 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 9Re-Writing Gender Power Hierarchies:Harbor East D
Ives, Wertenbaker, and Ukrainka
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 1020th Century Dramatists and Their Legacies:Harbor East E
Stein, Shaw, and Kanter
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 11Staging SophoclesHarbor 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 12In-Yer-Face: Twenty Years On--Harbor West A
Ravenhill, Ridley and McDonagh
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 13Tennessee WilliamsHarbor 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 14Representing RaceHarbor West C
Presiding:Baron Kelly (University of Louisville)
1. Giroux, Christopher. (Saginaw Valley State University)
“’STEP IN STEP IN/HUR-RY! HUR-RY!’: Repetition and Performance in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus.”
2. 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 15Theatre Post 9/11Harbor 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 16Reclaiming Lost Feminine VoicesHarbor 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 17Staged Reading Rehearsal SpaceHarbor Club
2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 18In-Yer-Face: Twenty Years On—Harbor West A
Teaching and Talking About In-Yer-Face Drama
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 19Bob 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 20Use a Little Body Language:Harbor West C
Reading the Embodied Text on Stage
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 21Contemporary Theatre and PuppetryHarbor 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 22Adapting Ibsen and ChekhovHarbor 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 23NEH Grant SessionHarbor 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 Ms. Sams will be available for individual consultation, formally and informally,in the Pier 5 Lobby on Friday afternoon.To arrange an appointment, contact or call (202)606-8283.
4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 24In-Yer-Face: Twenty Years On—Harbor West A
Sarah Kane: Performance and Reassessment
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.”
4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 25Writing and Re-Writing MasculinityHarbor West B
Presiding: Jose Badenes (Loyola Marymount University)
1. Bennett, Rachel Elinor. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“American Masculinity in Cold War Theatre: The Zoo Story and True West.”
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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 26New Critical Perspectives in Asian AmericanHarbor 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 27Othello: Race, Gender, and TranslationHarbor 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”
4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 28French TheatreHarbor 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.”
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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 29HOW TO TEACH A PLAY: Harbor Club
Exercises for the College Classroom
Presiding: Miriam Chirico (Eastern Connecticut State University)
and Kelly Younger (Loyola Marymount University)
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
7:30Opening Night Reception and PlayHarbor Club
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
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.
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About the playwright, Mario Correa: Born in Santiago, Chile and raised outside Washington, D.C., Mario Correa worked for a number ofyears 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 Semi-Finalist 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.
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 30Queering ShakespeareHarbor 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 31The 19th Century Stage and Its InfluenceHarbor West B
Presiding: Kiki Gounaridou (Smith College)
1. Considine, Kerri Ann. (University of Tennessee)
“Performing Corpses and Guilty Souls: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Theatrical Bodies and the Performance of Penance.”
2. Poole, Miriam. (Indiana University)
“National Unity through Mythological Drama: The Political Perspectives of Wagner and Yeats.”
9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Session 32Identity, 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.”
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 33Chinese Theatre and the WestHarbor 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.”