Publications
Books
Creating Ethnodrama: A Theatrical Approach to Research. Guilford Press, 2025.
Book Chapters
“Ethnodrama / Ethnotheatre.” In Patricia Leavy (Ed.), The Handbook of Arts-Based Research (2nd ed.). Guilford Press, 2025.
“Theatre as Fuel for the Search for Meaning.” In Melissa. Carter, James Fraser, Chelsea Garbell, & Amy Wilson (Eds). A Student’s Search for Meaning: Reflections on the Intersections of College Chaplaincy, Liberal Arts, and the University. Ethics Press, 2023.
“Scripting the Ethnodrama.” In Patricia Leavy (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press, 2020.
“Three Arts Based Researchers Walk into a Forum: A Conversation on the Opportunities and Challenges in Embodied and Performed Research,” with Nisha Sajnani and Richard Sallis. In Peter Duffy, Christine Hatton, & Richard Sallis (Eds.), Drama Research Methods: Provocations of Practice. Sense Publishers, 2019.
“Articulate and Activate: An Approach to Self-Assessment in Theatre Training.” In Judith McVarish & Catherine Milne (Eds.), Teacher Educators Rethink Self-Assessment in Higher Education: A Guide for the Perplexed. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2014.
“Teacher Vulnerability as it Relates to Self-Assessment: A Metalogue,” with Judith McVarish. In Judith McVarish & Catherine Milne (Eds.), Teacher Educators Rethink Self-Assessment in Higher Education: A Guide for the Perplexed. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2014.
“Overcoming Fear and Resistance When Teaching Shakespeare.” In Dominic Wyse, Richard Andrews, & James Hoffman (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Teaching. Routledge, 2010.
“Collaboration / Celebration: Introduction to Quinceañera.” In Roberta Uno & Lucy Mae San San Pablo Burns (Eds.), The Color of Theater: Race, Culture, and Contemporary Performance. Continuum, 2002.
Articles
“Documentary Theatre in the Classroom: Arts-Based Inquiry, Verbatim Performance, and the Courageous Container,” with Ryan Howland. (under review)
“Contextualizing If You Wanna Switch Seats, We Could,” with Lucy Medeiros and Lilly Stannard. McGill Journal of Education, 2025.
“Verbatim Performance and its Possibilities.” ArtsPraxis, 2023.
“Wading the Quagmire: Aesthetics and Ethics in Verbatim Theatre: Act 1,” with Wolfgang Vachon. Qualitative Inquiry, 2023.
“Audience Response to COVID Monologues: Research-based Theater on the Societal Impact of COVID-19,” with Emily A. Hurley, Saraniya Tharmarajah, Genevieve de Mahy, Jess Rassp, Jonathan Jones, & Steven A. Harvey. American Journal of Health Promotion, 2023.
“Editorial.” ArtsPraxis - Special Issue - NYU Steinhardt Program in Educational Theatre’s 2017 Forum on Ethnodrama: The Aesthetics of Research and Playmaking, 2019.
Plays
A Whole Latte 4-1-1. Cedar Rapids, IA: Heuer Publishing, 2016.
“Scenes from open heart.” In Johnny Saldaña (Ed.), Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage, Left Coast Press, Inc., 2011.
III In Barbara Parisi (Ed.), The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009, Applause Books, 2010.