Scholar
Research Interests
Pre-modern Drama | Classical Greek Theater | Adaptation and Translation | Reception | Pedagogy
Education
The Ohio State University
Ph.D., Theater: Performance, History, Theory - 2024
Dissertation: “Performing Greek Comedies and Satyr Plays by Restoring, Reconstructing, and Reseeding Their Fragments”
M.A., Theater: Performance, History, Theory - 2019
Thesis: “Greek Tragedy and Its American Choruses in Open Air Theaters from 1991 to 2014: The Cases of Gorilla Theatre Productions and The Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon”
Adams State University
B.A., Theater with Secondary English Education License - 2010
Magna cum laude
Conference Activity
Conferences Organized
Co-organizer, Under Construction: Call for ‘Projects.’ Interdisciplinary colloquium held by the Graduate Theatre Syndicate at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. April 2022.
Presentations
“The Silences between the Lines: Restoring or Revealing Lacunae in Translations of Menander’s Samia.” Presented for the panel ‘Attic Comedy’ at the 119th meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in Provo, Utah. March 2023.
“The Haunted Skene: A Practice-as-Research Case Study of Nikokhares’ Fragmentary Herakles Khoregus.” Presented for the panel ‘Comedic Survivals’ at the 22nd Annual Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama / University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the Performance of Ancient Drama in Oxford and London, England. June and July 2022.
“‘May I Call You an Ally?’ Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and 21st-century Feminist Causes.” Presented for the panel ‘Greek Women and Children (plus a touch of Shakespeare)’ at the 44th Annual Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, Florida. October 2021.
“Reverberations of Theater of War Productions’ ‘The Oedipus Project’ with Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus.” Presented for the panel ‘Reli(e)ving Trauma in Theatre and Performance’ at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2021 Annual Conference held virtually. August 2021.
“Instead of re-, let us consider ana- (ἀνα-).” Presented for the Theory and Criticism Roundtable Session ‘Re-Writing the Lexicon’ at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2021 Annual Conference held virtually. August 2021.
Presenting in Oxford
Inset: From my presentation at the 22nd Annual Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama / University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the Performance of Ancient Drama.
Right: Quad of St. John’s College, Oxford.
Publications
Book Reviews
How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays, ed. Miriam M Chirico & Kelly Younger (2020). New England Theatre Journal v. 32 (2021), 147-150.
Reconstructing Satyr Drama, eds. Andreas P. Antonopoulos, Menelaos M. Christopoulos, and George W.M. Harrison. Rhea Classical Review. Link here.