Where
The John and Joan Mullen Center for the Performing Arts800 East Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085
Driving Directions
Contact
Kim Reilly, Director of Marketing/PRVillanova Theatre
610-519-4760
kimberly.reilly@villanova.edu
You're Invited!
Register Today for the 2022 Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium!*
After two years in a virtual format, we are thrilled to gather again for this year's Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium (PTRS) to be held in The John and Joan Mullen Center for the Performing Arts for the first time! This year's theme is "Theatre & Community."
We are thrilled to announce 16th annual Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium (PTRS) at Villanova University! This year’s theme is Theatre & Community, which stems from a continued interest in how theatre builds systems of community and benefits from it. Over the past several years, the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted and tested theatre’s many communities. As we gather together for the first in-person PTRS since 2019, we turn our attention to the past, present, and future of theatre and community.
EVENT TO BE HELD AT THE JOHN AND JOAN MULLEN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
*We invite you to join us for any portion of our day!
If you plan on coming to one session, multiple sessions, or the whole symposium please register above
Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium 2022
"Theatre & Community"
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
8:30-9:00 Breakfast and Registration - Mullen Center Main Lobby
9:00-9:05 Opening remarks and welcome (Dr. Valerie Joyce, Dr. Bess Rowen) - Topper Theatre
9:10 - 10:25 Alumni Roundtable - Anyone Can Direct: The Broadway Jr. Phenomenon - Topper Theatre
Christen Mandracchia, Courtney Boches, Lexi, Schreiber, Kevin Esmond
10:30-12:00 Panel - Power to the People: Theatre as Community-Building - Topper Theatre
* Devising Community: How an online performance series created IRL bonds (Allie Marotta, Independent Scholar)
* Reconstructing People's Theatre in Indonesia: From Theatre for Empowerment to Performing Citizenship (Joned Suryatmoko, The Graduate Center, CUNY)
* Community Building through Extra-Theatrical Events: Intercultural Exchange at the BIT Festival (Joseph Paul Hill, The Graduate Center, CUNY)
* The Queer Performance and Radical Possibilities of the Roller Disco (Melissa Lin Sturges, University of Maryland)
12:00-1:00 Lunch - Belle Masque Terrace, 3rd Floor
1:05 - 2:05 Keynote Speaker: LaNeshe Miller-White, Executive Director, Theatre Philadelphia - Topper Theatre
2:10 - 3:40 Workshop with LaNeshe Miller-White and Theatre in the X Artists - Mullen Dance Studio
3:45 - 5:00 Emerging Scholars Panel - Topper Theatre
* Alison Hyde Pascale: "Broadway Baby (Fat): Steps Toward Eliminating Fat Bias in Adolescent and Community Theatre Casting"
* Katherine Fischer: "Access is Access: How Live Streaming Can Support Patrons with Disabilities"
* Chelsea Drumel: "Something to Be Done: Acknowledging the Phenomenological Perspective of the Post-Pandemic Audience"
* Sarah Stryker: "'Twere Best Not Know Myself: Psychological and Ethical Repercussions of Embodying Evil"