Please enjoy these samples of my work as an academic writer and production dramaturg.

Academic Writing

• Introduction, "The Enduring Myth of 42nd Street and the 'Forgotten Melody' of Bradford Ropes," from Greasepaint Puritan: Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes (University of Michigan Press, 2024)
  
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• "'She Was a Worker in the Theater:' Backstage Industry and the Stage-Struck Girl in Sinclair Lewis's Bethel Merriday," The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, 2021.
• "Dressed by Paris: Mlle. Modiste, Roberta, and No Strings," from Paris and the Musical: The City of Lights on Stage and Screen, 2021.
• "Beyond the Rue Pigalle: Recovering Ada 'Bricktop' Smith as 'Muse,' Mentor and Maker of Transatlantic Musical Theatre," from Reframing the Musical: Race, Culture and Identity, 2019.
• "'The World Belongs to the Young?' Age and the Golden Age Diva in Coco (1969) and Applause (1970)," Studies in Musical Theatre, March 2018, Vol. 12.1.
• "The 'Boy Wonder' and The Naked Genius: Mike Todd, Gypsy Rose Lee, and the Spectacle of Female Authorship," New England Theatre Journal, 2018, Volume 29​
• "'Gilding the Guild:' Art Theatre, the Broadway Revue, and Cultural Parody in The Garrick Gaieties (1925-1930)," Studies in Musical Theatre, Winter 2013, Vol. 7.1
• Performance Review: Promises, Promises, Theatre Journal, March 2011, Volume 63.1.

Dramaturgy​​

• Elizabeth Baker Biographical Program Note, Chains, Mint Theater Company, June 2022
• D.H. Lawrence Biographical Program Note, The Daughter-in-Law, Mint Theater Company, February 2022
• Micheál mac Liammóir Biographical Program Note, The Mountains Look Different, Mint Theater Company, May 2019
• Stanley Houghton and Annie Horniman Biographical Notes, Hindle Wakes, Mint Theater Company, December 2017​
• A.A. Milne Biographical Note, The Lucky One, Mint Theater Company, April 2017
• Miles Malleson Biographical Program Note,  Yours Unfaithfully , Mint Theater Company, January 2017
• N.C. Hunter Biographical Program Note, A Day by the Sea, Mint Theater Company, July 2016
• Hazel Ellis Biographical Program Note, Women Without Men, Mint Theater Company, February 2016
• Harold Chapin Biographical Program Note, The New Morality, Mint Theater Company, September 2015
• Ferenc Molnár Biographical Program Note, Fashions for Men, Mint Theater Company, February 2015
• George Kelly Biographical Program Note, The Fatal Weakness, Mint Theater Company, September 2014
• John Van Druten Biographical Program Note, London Wall, Mint Theater Company, February 2014
• Program Notes, Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, Yale Repertory Theatre, September 2009

Critical Journalism 

• "Double Lives: On Louise Brooks's Thirteen Women in Films," The Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2020. ​

Audience Talkbacks

• "John Van Druten: Sex and the Single Girl," EnrichMint series talkback for London Wall, Mint Theater Company, filmed February 2014​

Podcast Appearances for American Cinderellas

• "Cinderella Doesn't Want to Marry the Prince," "The Colin McEnroe Show," Connecticut Public Radio (episode also featuring Linda Holmes [NPR's "Pop Culture Happy Hour"], Simone Paget, and Heather Curran). 
  
  
• "Like a Boss: 1940s Musicals and the 'Boss Lady' with Maya Cantu," Theatre History Podcast #2 (produced by Michael Lueger), August 2016, HowlRound.com. 
  

Educational Writing

• "Mark the Music: A Look at Shakespeare and Musical Adaptation," WillPower! Student Guide, for Yale Repertory Theatre's These Paper Bullets!, March 2014