Lindsey Mantoan is the Ronni Lacroute Chair in Theatre Arts and an Associate Professor at Linfield University, where she joined the faculty in 2017 after having been a lecturer at Stanford University for three years. Her current book project, “From Broadway to the Auditorium: How Broadway Does High School (Oxford UP, forthcoming) researches the way musicals set in high schools frame adolescence as a laboratory for personal and communal experimentation. She is the author of War as Performance: Conflict in Iraq and Political Theatricality (Palgrave 2018), an occasional contributor to CNN.com, and co-editor of six books: 

  • The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays vol 3: YA Edition (Bloomsbury 2026)
  • The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays vol 2 (Bloomsbury 2025)
  • Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US (Routledge 2022, winner of the ATHE Award for Excellence in Editing)
  • The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays (Bloomsbury 2021, short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award)
  • Vying for the Iron Throne: Essays on Power, Gender, Death, and Performance in HBO’s Game of Thrones (McFarland 2018)
  • Performance in a Militarized Culture (Routledge 2017)

As a scholar-artist, Lindsey teaches courses on musical theater, theater history, queer theory, contemporary American drama, political and protest performance, and fairy tales; she also directs musicals, plays, and readings, and is an Intimacy Director. At Linfield, she has directed Macbeth, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, The Wolves, Firebringer, Heathers the Musical, She Kills Monsters, and an original adaptation of Trojan Women.

Education
A.B., Architecture and Urban Planning, Princeton University
M.A., Performance as Public Practice, University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D., Theatre and Performance Studies, Stanford University
Certification-pending Intimacy Director, Intimacy Directors and Coordinators 

Awards

2025: Outstanding Achievement Award, Bradley Bourbonnais Community High School 

2024: Excellence in Editing Award, Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Performance, and Theatre in the US, Association for Theatre in Higher Education

2023-24: “Revealing Student Voices by Re-Envisioning First Year Writing,” National Endowment for the Humanities: Spotlight for the Humanities in Higher Education

2023: Julie Olds and Thomas Hellie Creative Achievement Award, Linfield University

2022: Meritorious Achievement Award for Intimacy Direction, Doctor Voynich and Her Children, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

2020: Robert A. Shanke Award for Theatre Research, Mid-America Theatre Conference

2019: Alan and Pat Kelley Faculty Scholar Award, Linfield University