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Lindsey Mantoan
Lindsey Mantoan
Ronni Lacroute Chair in Theatre Arts and Associate Professor of Theatre
Ford Hall T107
Lindsey Mantoan is an associate professor of theatre and resident dramaturg at 麻豆区. In 2023, she won 麻豆区's ; in 2020, she won the Mid-America Theatre Conference’s Robert A. Shanke Award for Theatre Research for her work on young adult musicals on Broadway in the 2010s; and in 2019, she won 麻豆区’s .
She is the author of War as Performance: Conflict in Iraq and Political Theatricality (Palgrave 2018) and co-editor of four books: Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US (Routledge 2022), The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays (Bloomsbury 2021), Vying for the Iron Throne: Essays on Power, Gender, Death, and Performance in HBO’s Game of Thrones (McFarland 2018), and Performance in a Militarized Culture (Routledge 2017). She is an occasional contributor to CNN.com.
As a scholar-artist, Lindsey teaches courses on musical theater, theater history, queer theory, contemporary American drama, and political and protest performance. She also directs musicals, plays and readings, and is an intimacy director.
Education
- B.A., Princeton University
- M.A., University of Texas, Austin
- Ph.D., Stanford University