This is my book.
I write about media and performance.
I'm currently at work on a second book, tentatively titled Fake People, that considers digital performances of approximation, verisimilitude, and dissembling through a theatrical lens. I shared early content from this project at Interpolations 1, a new symposium on computation and the performing arts at the University of Toronto in October 2023.
I'm also working on a project about Brecht and self-driving cars, with my colleague Mark Shepard at the University at Buffalo. It's called Autonomous.
Here's some more about that book, and some other things I've written:
Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Finalist, ATHE Outstanding Book Award, 2022
Reviews of Playing Real:
Theatre Survey (September 2021)
Theatre Journal (March 2022)
TDR (March 2022)
Modern Drama (June 2022)
Theatre Topics (July 2022)
Forthcoming: "Consent Pedagogies," in the online section of "Abolition and Performance," a special issue of Theatre Journal, ed. Ariel Nereson and Tarryn Chun.
‘We are not making a movie’: Constituting Theatre in Live Broadcast.” Theatre Topics, 29:1, pp. 15-27, March, 2019. Winner, ATHE Outstanding Article Award, 2020.
“The Infinite Wrench.” International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, ed. Dalila Colucci,Gunter Berghaus, and Tim Klahn, vol 13 2023.
“A Postdigital Response: User Experience Design and Mixed Reality Performance,” co-authored with Dr. Steve Luber. In Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists, ed. William W. Lewis and Sean Bartley. Routledge, 2023. 105-112. Winner, ATHE Edited Works Award, 2024.
“Live-streaming and the Perils of Proximity.” Re-territorializing Digital Performance from South to North, a special issue of International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, ed. Sonali Pahwa and William Lewis, 15:3, pp. 283-294, November, 2019
“Digital theatricality: flickering documents in unsteady archives.” Amodern. Special Issue: Ephemera and Ephemerality: Media, Archive, Performance. ed. Priti Joshi and Susan Zieger. October 2017.
“Integrating Realities in Immersive Gaming.” Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance. Ed. James Frieze, Palgrave, 2016.
“This is not a threat: Conspiracy For Good.” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. Special Issue: Surveillance Technologies in Performance, ed. Elise Morrison. 11:2, November, 2015.