6.17 A Conversation with Dr. Amanda Dawson
This week Jimmy talks with Utah theatre education professor Dr. Amanda Dawson. She talks about dramaturgy, conversations about race in the theatre classrooms, and her current research.
Dr. Dawson's Recommended Resources:
Teaching Community
Not Light but Fire by Matthew R Kay
Beyond Conversations about Race by Washington Collado, Sharroky Hollie, et al.
Theatre Education Professor
Amanda Dawson, Ph.D., (she/her) is an Assistant Professor and Head of the BFA Theatre Education program in the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University. Amanda teaches courses in theatre education, script analysis, theatre history, and contemporary theatre. In practice, Amanda is a dramaturg and director. Her scholarship is interdisciplinary and mostly focuses on theatre education, dramaturgy, and representations of the United States military and veterans on stage. She has published in the New England Theatre Journal, Etudes, ArtsPraxis, Popular Culture Studies Journal, and Howlround.
