Theatre Ph.D. Dissertations
Dissertations from 2022
The Viewpoints: A Postmodern Actor Training for a Postmodern Theatre, Steven Daniel Cullen
The Evolution of Musical Theatre in Nigeria: A Case Study of Bolanle Austen-Peters' Musicals, Leesi Patrick
"What a Man": The Crisis of Masculinity on the Broadway Musical Stage, Daniel Matthew Ricken
Dissertations from 2021
The Misrepresentation of Arab Gulf Men Through Costumes on Stage and Screen, Abdulmajeed Aldoukhi
Toward the Horizon: Contemporary Queer Theatre as Utopic Activism, Cody Allyn Page
Dissertations from 2020
Staging Belonging: Performance, Migration, and the Middle Eastern Diaspora in the United States, Tamirdash Mohamadreza Babaee
From la Carpa to the Classroom: The Chicano Theatre Movement and Actor Training in the United States, Dennis Sloan
Dissertations from 2019
Detroit Brand Blackness: Race, Gender, Class, and Performances of Black Identities in Post Recession Detroit, Michelle Renee Cowin Gibbs
Bookish Women: Examining the Textual and Embodied Construction of Scholarly and Literary Women in American Musicals, Rebecca K. Hammonds
Dissertations from 2018
Lycra, Legs, and Legitimacy: Performances of Feminine Power in Twentieth Century American Popular Culture, Quincy D. Thomas
Dissertations from 2017
Beyond The Thong: Contexts, Representations, and the Performances of Erotic Masculinities in Male Strip Show(s), John Paul Staszel
Dissertations from 2016
Holding on to the basics: using the 3-D performance pyramid to improve skill retention in the introduction to acting classroom, Barrett Slade Billew
The Semiotics of Celebrity at the Intersection of Hollywood and Broadway, Kevin Calcamp
Performing the Female Superhero: An Analysis of Identity Acquisition, Violence, and Hypersexuality in DC Comics, Matthew Nicosia
Dissertations from 2015
The Grotesque Cross: The Performative Grotesquerie of the Crucifixion of Jesus, Hephzibah D. Dutt
From the Avant-Garde to the Popular: A History of Blue Man Group, 1987-2001, Stephen Harrick
"The Idea Of Beauty In Their Persons:" Dandyism And The Haunting Of Contemporary Masculinity, Darin Douglas Kerr
Exhibiting Scenographic Identities at the 2007 & 2011 Prague Quadrennials, Carl Harry Walling
Women in Stage Combat: A Study on Babes With Blades Theatre Company, Macaela Carder Whitaker
Dissertations from 2014
Playing Hippies and Indians: Acts of Cultural Colonization in the Theatre of the American Counterculture, Miriam Hahn
Choreographing Dirt: Performances of/against the Nature/Culture Divide, Angenette Spalink
Dissertations from 2013
Representing Childhood: The Social, Historical, and Theatrical Significance of the Child on Stage, Patrick Konesko
From Irreverent to Revered: How Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi and the "U-Effect" Changed Theatre History, Lance Mekeel
Stage Hypnosis in the Shadow of Svengali: Historical Influences, Public Perceptions, and Contemporary Practices, Cynthia Stroud
Dissertations from 2012
Revelations of a Genealogy: Biblical Women in Performance during Twentieth-Century American Feminisms, Kari Innes
"Indian" Summers: Querying Representations of Native American Cultures in Outdoor Historical Drama, Heidi Nees
Dissertations from 2011
Rethinking Artaud's Theoretical and Practical Works, Rob Connick
Unmasking Talchum: An Embodied Inquiry into Korea's Masked Dance-Drama, J.L. Murdoch
Dissertations from 2010
Women's Pilgrimage as Repertoiric Performance: Creating Gender and Spiritual Identity through Ritual, Vanessa Baker
Staging Orson Welles, Matthew Gretzinger
Woman Writes Herself: Exploring Identity Construction in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Pioneer Girl.”, Nicole Mancino
Proposed Exercises for Memory and Emotion in Acting Pedagogy: A Shared Narrative with Science, Ellen Rooney
Eric Bentley’s “Double” Lives, Timothy Schaffer
Musical Theatre in the Mountains: An Examination of West Virginia Public Theatre's History, Mission, Practices, and Community Impact, David Sollish
Dissertations from 2009
Playing (with) Space in The Author on the Wheel, Hope Bernard
Towards the Horsewoman: Performing Femininity in the American Horse Training and Riding Arenas, Season Ellison
Culture, Crisis, and Community: Christianity in North American Drama at the Turn of the Millennium, John Sebestyen
Miss Homegrown: The Performance of Food, Festival, and Femininity in Local Queen Pageants, Heather Williams
Dissertations from 2008
Me and My Shadow: An Exploration of Doppelganger as Found in the Music and Text of Susan Glaspell's The Verge, Terri Brown
Billy Graham, Elmer Gantry, and the Performance of a New American Revivalism, Kurt Edwards
Lady Liberty: Intertextual Performances of Gender and Nation, Parisa Joyce
Dissertations from 2006
Earning a Living as an Author in Early Modern England: The Case of Anthony Munday, Gerald George
Something Beautiful: Craft and Survival in North American Alternative Theatre Companies, Carrie Lee
Crafting Utopia and Dystopia: Film Musicals 1970-2002, Travis Malone
Living History as Peformance: An Analysis of the Manner in which Historical Narrative is Developed through Performance, Shelley Mateer
Dissertations from 2005
Bridging the Gap: Drew Hayden Taylor, Native Canadian Playwright in His Times, Dale Young