The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2 offers eight new plays by trans playwrights centering trans characters, trans life, and gender diversity.Curated via an open submission policy, this book brings together dramatic works that feature nuanced, authentic, and wonderfully messy representations of gender, race, and sexuality. Alongside the full scripts, all of which…
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Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US
*** Winner of the 2024 ATHE Excellence in Editing award! ***The award committee found Troubling Traditions to be timely, urgent, and quite comprehensive in its approach. It brings many perspectives on canonicity and decolonization, and showcases the variety of approaches and theories to working with, revising, and deconstructing the canon. It effectively balances coauthorship and polyvocality with the editors’…
Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays
Shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Best LBGTQ Anthology! The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays (May 2021), co-edited by Leanna Keyes and Angela Farr Schiller, compiles eight new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. This foundational book traverses a broad landscape of trans performance and represents a variety of performance modes and…
PERFORMANCE IN A MILITARIZED CULTURE
Performance in a Militarized Culture. 2017. Co-editor with Sara Brady. New York: Routledge. The long cultural moment that arose in the wake of 9/11 and the conflict in the Middle East has fostered a global wave of surveillance and counterinsurgency. Performance in a Militarized Culture explores the ways in which we experience this new status…
VYING FOR THE IRON THRONE: Essays on Power, Gender, Death, and Performance in GAME OF THRONES
Vying for the Iron Throne: Essays on Power, Gender, Death, and Performance in Game of Thrones. 2018. Co-editor with Sara Brady. McFarland. North Carolina: McFarland. Game of Thrones has changed the landscape of television during an era hailed as the Golden Age of TV. An adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy A Song of…
WAR AS PERFORMANCE: Conflicts in Iraq and Political Theatricality
War as Performance: Conflict in Iraq and Political Theatricality. 2018. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. This book examines performance in the context of the 2003 Iraq War and subsequent conflicts with Daesh, or the so-called Islamic State. Working within a theater and performance studies lens, it analyzes adaptations of Greek tragedy, documentary theater, political…
Performance Research: On Time
“On Time” (special issue). June 2014. Performance Research 19, 3. Co-editor with Branislav Jakovljevic. Performance can’t escape time-keeping, whether it is a split-second performance, or a durational piece that takes days, weeks, months or even years to complete. At the same time, performance defies limitations by evading the present, documenting the past while leaping into…
Articles and Essays
2022 “The Political Power of Angry Women.” In Power and Subversion in Game of Thrones, edited by A. Keith Kelly. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland. 2022. “Expectations are High for Oregon’s New Governor.” On CNN.com. 11 Nov. 2022. “House of the Dragon isn’t perfect, but it maybe be what we need.” On CNN.com. 24…
Presentations
2025 “How Do You Solve the Problem In Front Of You?”: Teenage/Adult Collaboration in High Schools,” PLENARY PRESENTATION, American Society for Theatre Research, Denver, CO. 2025 “Anybody Have a Map? Teenage/Adult Collaboration in High School Musicals,” Song Stage and Screen Conference, Chicago, IL 2024 Award Winners Panel for Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Atlanta, GA…
Reviews
2018 Book review of Renee C. Romano and Clair Bond Potter, eds., Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall. 2016 Performance review, San Francisco Mime Troup’s Freedomland. Theatre Journal, 68.2. 2015 Book review, Sara Brady’s Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror: “Whatever it…
Lindsey Mantoan, Ph.D. 