Volume 1, Number 2
September 2015
Greetings
Studies in Scholarly Voice: A Note From the Editors
Jennifer Goff & Julia Moriarty
Historical Perspectives
Sex Sells Some but Abstinence Advertises More Attractively: Spring Awakening, Sex Education, and the Persistence of Hypocrisy
Loren Hiser
Three Plays in August: The Bear and the Cub, Historical Availability, and Inventing History
Matt DiCintio
Jefferson and Madison Enter Upstage Center: A Dialogue about Living Frameworks for Dead Plays
Laurel Ann Painter
Performance, Identity, and Activism
Performance, Prison Strike, Zombie: Steve McQueen's Hunger and the 'Reflection Machines'
Nicholas Fesette
Secret Origins of the American Superhero!: Comic Books as Performance
Danny Devlin
Choreographing Meanings: Performance and The Student Movement in Chile
Camila Gonzalez Ortiz
Studies in Scholarly Voice: A Note From the Editors
Jennifer Goff & Julia Moriarty
Historical Perspectives
Sex Sells Some but Abstinence Advertises More Attractively: Spring Awakening, Sex Education, and the Persistence of Hypocrisy
Loren Hiser
Three Plays in August: The Bear and the Cub, Historical Availability, and Inventing History
Matt DiCintio
Jefferson and Madison Enter Upstage Center: A Dialogue about Living Frameworks for Dead Plays
Laurel Ann Painter
Performance, Identity, and Activism
Performance, Prison Strike, Zombie: Steve McQueen's Hunger and the 'Reflection Machines'
Nicholas Fesette
Secret Origins of the American Superhero!: Comic Books as Performance
Danny Devlin
Choreographing Meanings: Performance and The Student Movement in Chile
Camila Gonzalez Ortiz
About the Contributors
DANNY DEVLIN is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Bismarck State College. His research revolves around the central theme of cultural production in times of great social stress and upheaval. He recently completed his PhD in Theatre at the University of Kansas, and holds an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BA in Acting from Christopher Newport University. He is a member of the Actor’s Equity Association, and proudly boasts a comic book collection that his fiancee calls “ridiculous.”
MATT DICINTIO is a Ph.D. candidate in Drama at Tufts University, where he is writing his dissertation about freaks, beasts, and gadgets in early America. He holds an M.A. in Romance Languages from the University of North Carolina and an M.F.A. in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University. His publications include the Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy and American Theatre Magazine, where he was an affiliated writer.
NICHOLAS FESETTE is a theatre artist and doctoral student in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. His research examines the connections between embodied performance and radical politics in and around the American penitentiary, and he currently helps facilitate The Phoenix Players Theatre Group, a performance ensemble of incarcerated men in Auburn Prison. In New York City he directed and performed at spaces like Dixon Place, HERE Arts, Theater for the New City, Walkerspace, Horse Trade, and Incubator Arts. He earned a B.A. magna cum laude in Theatre from Hamilton College. Website: nickfesette.net
LOREN HISER holds a B.A. in Theatre and English & Comparative Literature from William Smith College, where she appeared on stage in a number of productions. She was also a member of Mosaic NY, a social justice theatre company dedicated to creating devised work. She presented a version of this essay on the Undergraduate Emerging Scholars panel at the Mid-America Theatre Conference in 2015. She is currently the Development and Fundraising Fellow at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She plans on entering the Master in Arts Management program at Carnegie Mellon in Fall 2016.
CAMILA GONZALEZ ORTIZ is a Chilean performance and theatre artist and researcher. She holds a B.A in Theatre from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, University of London. She worked as a theatre director in Santiago until she moved to London in 2010. In the UK she worked with company 11:18 developing site-specific and audio-based performances taking during real train journeys. Her work has been presented at Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil (Chile); The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chile); Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (England)); SPILL Festival of Performance (England); and Derry-Londonderry City of Culture (Northern Ireland). Currently, she lives in London, where she is a PhD Candidate at King’s College London. Her research focuses on the intersection between Chilean theatre and performance and their socio-political context. Her areas of interest are Latin American theatre and Performance, performance studies, site-specific theatre and the politics of spectatorship.
LAUREL ANN PAINTER possesses a strong background in theatre, visual art, and cinema as a researcher, practitioner, and educator; however, she always has been a wayward child of the humanities. She holds an MFA in Radio/Television/Film with an emphasis in documentary production, and a minor equivalent in Electronic Media Art from the University of North Texas. She currently is exploring the scholarship side as an ABDer in the interdisciplinary Fine Arts program at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. She is very content to be in company with a plate of Tex-Mex nachos and a glass of Merlot.
DANNY DEVLIN is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Bismarck State College. His research revolves around the central theme of cultural production in times of great social stress and upheaval. He recently completed his PhD in Theatre at the University of Kansas, and holds an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BA in Acting from Christopher Newport University. He is a member of the Actor’s Equity Association, and proudly boasts a comic book collection that his fiancee calls “ridiculous.”
MATT DICINTIO is a Ph.D. candidate in Drama at Tufts University, where he is writing his dissertation about freaks, beasts, and gadgets in early America. He holds an M.A. in Romance Languages from the University of North Carolina and an M.F.A. in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University. His publications include the Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy and American Theatre Magazine, where he was an affiliated writer.
NICHOLAS FESETTE is a theatre artist and doctoral student in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. His research examines the connections between embodied performance and radical politics in and around the American penitentiary, and he currently helps facilitate The Phoenix Players Theatre Group, a performance ensemble of incarcerated men in Auburn Prison. In New York City he directed and performed at spaces like Dixon Place, HERE Arts, Theater for the New City, Walkerspace, Horse Trade, and Incubator Arts. He earned a B.A. magna cum laude in Theatre from Hamilton College. Website: nickfesette.net
LOREN HISER holds a B.A. in Theatre and English & Comparative Literature from William Smith College, where she appeared on stage in a number of productions. She was also a member of Mosaic NY, a social justice theatre company dedicated to creating devised work. She presented a version of this essay on the Undergraduate Emerging Scholars panel at the Mid-America Theatre Conference in 2015. She is currently the Development and Fundraising Fellow at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She plans on entering the Master in Arts Management program at Carnegie Mellon in Fall 2016.
CAMILA GONZALEZ ORTIZ is a Chilean performance and theatre artist and researcher. She holds a B.A in Theatre from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, University of London. She worked as a theatre director in Santiago until she moved to London in 2010. In the UK she worked with company 11:18 developing site-specific and audio-based performances taking during real train journeys. Her work has been presented at Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil (Chile); The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chile); Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (England)); SPILL Festival of Performance (England); and Derry-Londonderry City of Culture (Northern Ireland). Currently, she lives in London, where she is a PhD Candidate at King’s College London. Her research focuses on the intersection between Chilean theatre and performance and their socio-political context. Her areas of interest are Latin American theatre and Performance, performance studies, site-specific theatre and the politics of spectatorship.
LAUREL ANN PAINTER possesses a strong background in theatre, visual art, and cinema as a researcher, practitioner, and educator; however, she always has been a wayward child of the humanities. She holds an MFA in Radio/Television/Film with an emphasis in documentary production, and a minor equivalent in Electronic Media Art from the University of North Texas. She currently is exploring the scholarship side as an ABDer in the interdisciplinary Fine Arts program at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. She is very content to be in company with a plate of Tex-Mex nachos and a glass of Merlot.
