Joining us in 2020!
Amber Palmer 
Bridget Anderson 
Dan Van Note
Amber Palmer’s research interests include: Theater for new media, theater for young audiences, contemporary drama, queer theory and Avant garde theater. Amber’s plays have been seen at Activate Midwest, Flint Repertory Theatre, Bristol Valley Theatre, Pegasus PlayLab, and elsewhere. A monologue from her play “It’s a Small World (or The Robot Play)” is published in Best Men’s Monologues of 2019. Awards include City Theatre’s National Award for Short Playwriting (finalist, 2019), Tipping Point Theatre’s Sandbox Play Festival (2nd place, 2019) and Gary Garrison 10 Minute Play Award (Region 3 finalist, 2018). She was Artist-in-Resident at The Mitten Lab in 2019 and graduated with her MFA in playwriting from Western Michigan University in spring 2020.
Bridget Anderson’s research interests include late medieval and early modern theatre history spanning roughly 1300-1700, medieval cycle dramas, Shakespeare, children on the Restoration stage, theatre as response to trauma, biographical archive, the development of the American musical, and dramaturgy of musical theatre. She received a BA in Drama from Franciscan University of Steubenville and an MA in Theatre History and Criticism from Catholic University of America. Recently, she worked as a research assistant on the Oscar Hammerstein II archive at the Library of Congress, dramaturg at the Signature Theatre, and literary manager/resident dramaturgy at Transformation Theatre.
Dan Van Note is a first year MA student. He earned a BA in Anthropology with a minor in Economics from Davidson College in 2014. His research interests include postmodern dance, drag, and endurance sports. He also writes personal essays and hosts a weekly podcast.
Continuing ITS Students
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- Ashley Bellet, PhD Student: modern theatre aesthetics, material culture studies, object oriented ontology, and visual representations of posthumanism on stage
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- Holly Berkowitz, Ph.D. student: performances of death, mourning, motherhood, and race in twentieth century American drama with a focus on black feminist performance
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- Erin Briddick, PhD student: Performance Studies, postmodern performance, walking performance, communication philosophy and theory
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- Scott Campbell, Ph.D. student: traditional music performance, folklore in theatre
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- Zoe Cohen, Ph.D. Student: mid-century performances of gender, sexuality, style, and vulnerability
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- Kathleen Cawley Ph.D. student: Contemporary Irish Theatre, Memory Studies, Applied Improvisation, and Documentary Theatre
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- Scott Harman, PhD Student: Theory & History of acting, cognitive studies, theatre historiography, The Group Theatre
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- Jacob Hellman. Ph.D. Dissertator: critical cultural depictions of the Israeli Defense Forces on the Israeli stage
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- Quanda Johnson, PhD student: diasporic African performance, collage aesthetics, performance practice as research
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- Joshua Kelly, PhD student: performance philosophy, political theatre, communist theatre, post-war British drama, and queer theatre.
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- Dong-Uk Kim, PhD Student: 20th century American drama, African American Drama, African Drama, Caribbean Drama, and minority group and individual identities in 20th and 21st century works of drama
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- Megan Marsh-McGlone, PhD Student: Relational art, avant-garde performance, surrealism, curation, lactation, medical science, and new motherhood in performance
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- Claire Mason, PhD Student // TFY Specialization // Northern Ireland, Ulster Unionism and Loyalism, riots, cultural history, the politics of performance and the performance of politics, and performing ‘Britishness’
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- Molly Mattaini, PhD student: drama for and with children on the Autism spectrum
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- Sunghee Pak, PhD Student: Rewritings and adaptations of Early Modern English Drama, Postcolonialism, Contemporary/Modern British and American Drama, Contemporary World Theatre
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- Orion Risk, M.A. student: gender identity in theatrical performance, theatre practice & empathy, new and recent works
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- Lily Shell, MA student: dramaturgy through design, devised and collaborative theatre, and theatre for social justice
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- Steffen Silvis Ph.D. Dissertator: Midcentury American Modernism, Twentieth Century theatre and drama of Central and Eastern Europe, and Performance Studies
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- Rini Tarafder, Phd student: urban theatre in India, cosmopolitanism, postcolonial theatre, music in theatre, globalization and gender
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- Bridgett Vanderhoof, Ph.D. student: Theatre for Youth, the Miss America Scholarship Organization, Russian theatre for young adults, costume design, and digital media design
