Mark Cosdon directed a Broadway Musical Revue with students at Sicily’s University of Palermo.  He continues as Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Allegheny College and as managing director of the college’s Playshop Theatre.  This past February, Cosdon directed Proof in the Playshop Theatre and in September 2021 Cosdon remounted Bikeman, Peabody-winning journalist Tom Flynn’s rumination on September […]

Donatella Galella received the 2022-2023 Visiting Research Fellowship from the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. She is working on a book about how yellowface persists in twenty-first century musical theatre, and how Asian Americans labor to counter yellowface.

Dorothy Chansky was awarded a fellowship by the Penn State Humanities Institute for the 2021-22 academic year. She is completing a book on representations of dementia on the American stage of the past century that will be published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Mark Cosdon recently returned from Sicily where he directed a Broadway Musical Revue with students from the University of Palermo.  He joined Mimesis International Publishing’s editorial board for the book series ““Drammaturgie e drammatica.”  Cosdon continues as Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Allegheny College.  This past year at Allegheny, Cosdon directed Karen Zacarías’s Native Gardens […]