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2019-20
In 2019, I spent more time focused on the page than the stage, although I successfully mounted my first musical, Kander and Ebb's Depression-era work, Flora the Red Menace, for Mary Baldwin University's undergraduate Theatre program in February.
Over the course of the Spring I finished my chapter, "'And practice rhetoric in your common talk': How Ralph Made Rhetors Of Us All," for the collection Shakespeare in the Light: Essays in Honor of Ralph Alan Cohen, edited by Paul Menzer and Amy Cohen, for Farleigh Dickinson University Press. This "festschrift" was published in the fall to coincide with the 2019 Blackfriars Conference.
At this Blackfriars conference, I also presented the plenary paper, "'Words, words, words': Hamlet and the Rhetoric of the Cuckoo," which was enthusiastically received by the attendees.
Finally, over the summer I revised my book chapter, "'This is the stranger's case': Accenting Shakespeare's ESL Characters," for the collection Shakespeare and Accentism, edited by Adele Lee, to be published by Routledge in late 2020.
After all this writing, I will be delighted to return to the stage as a resident acting member in the American Shakespeare Center's summer/fall 2020 Marquee season. Among roles in Shakespeare's Othello, Ben Jonson's Volpone, and Anchuli Felicia King's new play, Keene, I shall revisit Shylock from The Merchant of Venice, a role dear to my heart and seared into my soul.
Over the course of the Spring I finished my chapter, "'And practice rhetoric in your common talk': How Ralph Made Rhetors Of Us All," for the collection Shakespeare in the Light: Essays in Honor of Ralph Alan Cohen, edited by Paul Menzer and Amy Cohen, for Farleigh Dickinson University Press. This "festschrift" was published in the fall to coincide with the 2019 Blackfriars Conference.
At this Blackfriars conference, I also presented the plenary paper, "'Words, words, words': Hamlet and the Rhetoric of the Cuckoo," which was enthusiastically received by the attendees.
Finally, over the summer I revised my book chapter, "'This is the stranger's case': Accenting Shakespeare's ESL Characters," for the collection Shakespeare and Accentism, edited by Adele Lee, to be published by Routledge in late 2020.
After all this writing, I will be delighted to return to the stage as a resident acting member in the American Shakespeare Center's summer/fall 2020 Marquee season. Among roles in Shakespeare's Othello, Ben Jonson's Volpone, and Anchuli Felicia King's new play, Keene, I shall revisit Shylock from The Merchant of Venice, a role dear to my heart and seared into my soul.