Dissertations from 2024
Time, Place, & Purpose: The Performance of Creole Identity in Louisiana, Rachel N. Aker
THE MESSY ANTICS AGE: UTOPIAN POTENTIAL IN QUEER JEWISH PERFORMANCE, Kyra Smith
Dissertations from 2023
Expressing Outrage, Re-Inventing Hope: Performing Nationhood in Nigerian Standup Comedy., Babasinmisola Fadirepo
The Abolitionist Spectator: Resistant Readings of Punishment, Rehabilitation, and Reform at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Kathryn Marie Morris
Roleplaying Games and Performance, Benjamin Joseph Munise
Proud of Your Boy: Toxic Masculinity, Boyhood, and the American Musical, Aaron J. Wood
Dissertations from 2022
Asexual Dramaturgies: Reading for Asexuality in the Western Theatrical Canon, Anna Maria Ruffino Broussard
An Examination of the Myriad of Skills Properties Artisans Utilize and How They Are Attained, Crystal L. Hayner
Emerging Trends: Scenic Design Beyond The Stage, Kellie N. Murphy
Methods and Practices of Teaching Online Theatrical Scenic Painting Curricula, Madison Stinemetz
Theses from 2021
Sound Glove: A Development in Collaboration, Emma E. Arends
THE SECOND LINE PARADE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY THROUGH COSTUME IN THE GROUP THE UNDEFEATED DIVAS, GENTS AND KIDS., Suellen da Costa Coelho
The Orlando International Fringe Festival: An Historical and Administrative Overview, Brook Akya Hanemann
The Arena Players, Inc.: The Oldest Continuously Operating African American Community Theatre in the United States, Alexis Michelle Skinner
Dissertations from 2019
Mini-Actors, Mega-Stages: Examining the Use of Theatre among Children and Youth in U.S. Evangelical Megachurches, Carla Elisha Lahey
Dissertations from 2018
Labor and Delivery: Television Performances By Pregnant Actresses From 1948-2016, Evleen Michelle Nasir
A Tale of Two Birds: Lighting Design and Implementation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking Bird Running in Repertory at Swine Palace Theatre, Chelsea G. Touchet
Theses from 2017
Diaspora Crossroads, Folaranmi Sojourner Afolayan
Precarious Democracy: "It Can't Happen Here" as the Federal Theatre's Site of Mass Resistance, Macy Donyce Jones
A Man Without: A Search for Personal Identity, Nitin Govindrao Mane
Give 'er the Gun, Caitlin Mae Morrison
Main Line, Michael Pepp
The Machine Gun Hand: Robots, Performance, and American Ideology in the Twentieth Century, Benjamin Michael Phelan
The Treasure of Welks-Kreer, Lance Rasmussen
Terrible Telegrams, Cara Lindsay Reid
Me Paenitet, Joshua Stenvick
Dissertations from 2016
Professional Wrestling: Local Performance History, Global Performance Praxis, Neal Anderson Hebert
Cuban Routes of Avant-Garde Theatre: Havana, New York, Miami, 1965-1991., Eric Mayer-Garcia
Nightmares are Dreams, Too, Camilla Meg Morrison
Violent Conventions: An Analysis of the Unintended Aesthetics of On-Stage Accidents, Jeremy Matthew Reynolds
Theses from 2015
Missing. . . A Story of Ambiguous Loss, Ashley Nicole Adams
Augmented Renaissance: From Creation to Revelation, Christopher Atkinson
A Cleansing Breath: A Journey of Creation on the Hard Road, Addie Leigh Barnhart
Reupholstery: A Guide for Prop Masters, Kathryn Leigh Brittingham
Ages of [Wo]Man, Amanda Jane Clark
Props Management in Professional and Educational Institutions, Matthew David Duvall
The Creation and Reflection of a Solo Show: Corner of 26 and Lost, Margaret McGurn
Lucky Charms, Timothy James Moriarty
Prisoner in the Darkness, Joseph Lee Morris
Joan: A Play With Broken Songs, Colton James Neidhardt
Theatre Safety in Louisiana Secondary Schools: A Survey Study, Christopher Pyfrom
Theses from 2013
The creation of "Behind the Vote," a one-person play, Jennifer E. Ballard
From thin air : the creation of a new American musical, Jason Bayle
The creation of "Habitat Five: The Children's Crusade" a solo play, Katrina Michelle Despain
Restoring performance : personal story, place, and memory in post-Katrina New Orleans, Anne-Liese Juge Fox
The creative development of the one-person play, "Turkey Boys," a production thesis in acting, Nicholas Andrew Hamel
Bear with me : signs are tricksters, and reality is invisible to the naked eye: a one-person play, Chia-Wen Hsu
Indians and onions : an exploration of the creation of "Curry Bowl" a one-person play, Rani Jessica Jain
The tyrants within us and the thread of history : the creation of "Sic Semper Tyrannis," a one-person play, Benjamin Todd Koucherik
The creation of "A Single Revolution of the Sun," a one-person play, Gregory Alan Leute
Tensions between abstraction and replication in early-twentieth-century design : Norman Bel Geddes' designs for Broadway's The Miracle, John Thomas-Hood Mabry
The creation of "Voices in My Head," a one-man show, Anthony Michael McMurray
The creation of "Trash the Dress" : a solo play, Kristina Sutton
Faced with faces, Donald E. Watkins
Dissertations from 2012
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts: a history in progress, Suzanne Michelle Blanchard Chambliss
Projected performances: the phenomenology of hybrid theater, David Edward Coley
Perception, power, plays, and print: Charles II and the restoration theatre of consensus, Christopher William Nelson
Ballplayer, an addiction story: a production thesis of a solo performance piece, Nickolas Ian Rhoton
Dissertations from 2011
Process as product: the culture of development and the twenty-first century American dramatist, John Patrick Bray
Finding inspiration in Invitation to a Beheading: a thesis on the creation and development of a one-person play, Joshua Ryan Dawes
Torture and fear as tools for maintaining power in The Germophobe: a thesis on creating a one-man show from the author-actor himself, Alexander Stephen Galick
Modern myth in performance: claiming identity through a reading of fantasy withcraft, Jessica Satterwhite Gray
The creation of "Echolalia: a Conversation" a production thesis in acting, Olga Michele Guidry
Myth, method and masturbation: the hysteria of woman's sexuality, a one-person play, Josephine Hall
(Im)possibilities of Theatre and Transgression: the critical impact of transgressive theatrical practices, Christopher J. Krejci
"Baby, dream your dream": Pearl Bailey, Hello, Dolly!, and the negotiation of race in commerical American musical theatre, Charles Eliot Mehler
An aloha state of mind: performing Hawaiian cultural identities, Kirsten E. Ogden
Regarding Westernization in Central Africa: Hybridity in the Works of Three Chadian Playwrights, Enoch Reounodji
Permission to perform: a waltz with Zelda, Sarah E. Smith
Spectacle, pageantry, and parading, Whitney Whetstone
Theses from 2010
Costume crafts an exploration through production experience, Michelle L. Hathaway
The dialogism of self and other in contemporary American drama, Shih-Yi Huang
The Royal Family costume design, Katherine Johnson
Theses from 2009
The role of Fabiana Aziza Cunningham in Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: a production thesis in acting, Leigh-Erin Balmer
The role of Yusef Akbar Azziz Al-Nassar Gamel El-Fayoumy and the construction of specific relationships in the play The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Kaluhath Kenneth De Abrew
Jewish identity on the stage: the roles of Saint Matthew and Caiaphas the Elder in Stephen Adly Guirsis's' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Andrew Paul Fafoutakis
A humanistic view of Satan: the role of Satan in Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Yohance Myles
The role of Judas Iscariot in Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: a production thesis in acting and the actor director relationship, Scott Matthew Woltz
The role of Nina in Diana Son's Satellites: a production thesis in acting, Jessica Wu
Dissertations from 2008
The gallant six hundred: performing the Light Brigade into a heroic icon, Elizabeth Carrick Cawns
Theses from 2007
From Rwanda to the stage: a production thesis in acting, Kesha S. Bullard
The role of the merchant in Bertolt Brecht's The Exception and the Rule: a production thesis in acting, Mark Jaynes
The role of Hermes et.al. in Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses: a production thesis in acting, Reuben Mitchell
The implantation of Western theatre in Korea: Hong Hae-sǒng (1894-1957), Korea's first director, Saejoon Oh
Playing the Third Man (Midas' Servant, Ceyx, Morpheus as Ceyx, Orpheus, Apollo, A, Philemon) in Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses: a production thesis, Ronald Ludlow Reeder
The roles of Scientist, Narrator, Mother, Pandora, Nursemaid, Therapist, and Baucis in Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses: a production thesis in acting, Anna Loft Richardson
Peforming Louisiana: the history of Cajun dialect humor and its impact on the Cajun cultural identity, Debrah Royer Richardson
The role of Olympia in Charles Mee's Big Love: a production thesis in acting, Elizabeth Nicole Travis
Dissertations from 2006
Stage(d) mothers: mother-daughter tropes in Twentieth-Century American drama, Kristin Hanson
Green Theatre: proto-environmental drama and the performance of ecological values in contemporary Western theatre, Kurt Gerard Heinlein
The other side of the tracks: railroads, race, and the performance of unity in nineteenth-century American entertainment, Elissa Sartwell
Performing citizenship: tensions in the creation of the citizen image on stage and screen, John William Wright
Theses from 2005
The role of Calisto/Clindor/Theogenes in Tony Kushner's adaptation of The Illusion by Pierre Corneille a production thesis in acting, Preston E. Davis
Recovering ancient ritual and the theatre of the Apache: a journey through the false consciousness of Western theatre history, Marla Kathleen Dean
The role of Matamore in Tony Kushner's adaptation of The Illusion: a production thesis in acting, Shawn Halliday
The role of Pridamant in Tony Kushner's adaptation of The Illusion: a production thesis in acting, Brace Easton Harris
The roles of Elicia/Lyse/Clarina in Tony Kushner's The Illusion: a production thesis in acting, Sarah Jane Johnson
The role of Sylvester Brown in August Wilson's Ma' Rainey's Black Bottom: a production thesis in acting, Eric Jerard Little
The role of Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth: a production thesis in acting, Taralyn Adele MacMullen