Dr. Nelson Barre
Associate Professor
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Drama and Theatre Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway
- M.A. in Theatre Studies, Villanova University
- B.A. in English, Theater, Classical Civilizations, Wabash College
Research & Teaching Interests
- Dramaturgy
- Contemporary Theatre and Performance
- Irish Theatre
- Multicultural Performance Histories
- New Work Development
- Memory Studies
- Ritual Studies
- Musical Theatre
- Theatre History and Historiography
Scholarly Activities
- "Whitesplaining Change and Perspective in Fairview"; Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2019
- “'I Got Blood on My Cello!': Changing Embodiment and Labor with Actor-Musicians in Sondheim Revivals"; Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2019
- "'Let’s now rehearse': Enda Walsh’s The Last Hotel and Finding Identity in Death"; American Conference for Irish Studies West 2017
- "'born somewhere far from where I live': Bulrusher as Performance of Mixed Race and Space"; American Society for Theatre Research 2017
Publications
- "'we are holding that space for you': Representation of Race in Appropriate, Straight White Men, and The Thanksgiving Play"; New England Theatre Journal, 2019
- “Danti-Dan: Gina Moxley’s Re-vision of Irish Womanhood and Agency”; Forthcoming in Irish Women Playwrights and Theatre-makers
- “Perpetual Stagnation and Transformation: Ballyturk and The Walworth Farce as Memorial (Re)Inscription”; in Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory, 2016
Available as a Media resource for the following topics
- Dramaturgy, Theatre History, Irish Theatre, Contemporary Theatre and Politics
Extracurricular
- DIRECTING
- An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, in a version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Roanoke College, 2020)
- Admissions by Joshua Harmon (Roanoke College, 2019)*
- [title of show] by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell (Roanoke College, 2019)
- The Christians by Lucas Hnath (Roanoke College, 2019)*
- The Father by Florian Zeller (University of Oregon, 2018)
- Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus (Staged Reading, 2017)*
- The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence by Madeleine George (Summer SOUP, 2017)
- * Staged reading
- DRAMATURGY
- smudge by Meg Schenk (New Voices University of Oregon, 2018)
- Just a Shack in the Woods by Connor French (New Voices University of Oregon, 2018)
- Left Hand of Darkness adapted by John Schmor (Univeristy of Oregon, 2017)
- Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn (University of Oregon, 2017)
- TRAINING
- Texas Intensive Workshop - Society of American Fight Directors (2018)
- Margolis Method - Professor Certification (2018)