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Michael Chemers
Job Title: Associate Professor of Dramatic Literature
Organization affiliation:
Location: Santa Cruz,
CA
University of California at Sa
Member since: 2014
Education:
2001 PhD Theatre Theory and History, University of Washington (Seattle)
1997 MFA Playwriting, Indiana University (Bloomington)
Biography:
Author of GHOST LIGHT: AN INTRODUCTORY HANDBOOK FOR DRAMATURGY (SIU PRESS 2010); founding Director of the BFA in Production Dramaturgy Program at Carnegie Mellon University; 25 years experience in production dramaturgy with an international profile. Also theatre historian and theorist, and involved in dramaturgical development of social robots and interactive games, working on THE NEW ANNOTATED HAMBURG DRAMATURGY, a new critical English edition of Lessing's important work, with a team of scholars.
Areas of Expertise:
adaptation, pedagogy, digital-media dramaturgy, social robotics, Lessing studies, theatre history and advanced critical theory
Language(s) spoken:
French, Spanish
Recent Work:
Contributor to the ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO DRAMATURGY. Contributor to the new annotated translation of THE HAMBURG DRAMATURGY (Routledge, 2018). Author of THE MONSTER IN THEATRE HISTORY (Routledge 2017) and SYSTEMIC DRAMATURGY IN THE DIGITAL AGE (SIUP 2017).