Open access theses and dissertations from Drama alums:

PhD in Drama and Theatre

2025

• Encountering Waste: Performing with Plastics at the End of the World / by Talin Abadian
• Performing Chinese Medicine in the United States: Displacement, Integration, and Embodiment / by Chengyuan Huang
• The Stories We Tell: Affective Expressivity in the Formation of Reality and Identity in Theatre-Based Therapies / by Carly Amber Shaw

2024

• Migrant Wit, Theater Wit: Chinese American Inter-becoming/ Qianru Li
• Untying Pain: Performances of Survival in Postcolonial South Korea / by Minu Park

2023

• Emerging Authorities in Restoration Theatre: Women's Entry into Self-Representation / by Amy E. Shine

2022

• Music to the Eyes: Popular Music, American Sign Language, and Deaf Culture on Stage and Screen / by Stephanie Lim
• Puppetry: A Performative Reenactment of Taiwan / by Chee-Hann Wu

2019

• Colonizing and Decolonizing Latinidad with American Theatre / by Ricardo E. Rocha
• Performing Possibilities: Trans-Healing in Activist Performance / by Anna Renée Winget

2018

• "And all is semblative a woman's part": Phenomenology and Gender in Early Modern English Drama / by Sonia Desai
• Shakespeare: Made in México / by Leticia Concepcion Garcia
• Untimed: Transversal Subjects and Temporality in Shakespeare / by Sam Kolodezh
• Pleading the Fifth Element: Disaesthetics and Hip Hop as Black Study / by Wind Dell Woods

2016

• Survival Anxieties, Traumatic Performance and Stages of Memory: Witnessing Loss in the Final Days of Holocaust Survivors / by Allison Mikel Rotstein
• Damsels in Distress: Theatre, Anxiety, and the Feminine from the American Revolutionary War to the Civil War / by Laura Katherine Brost Turner

2015

• Feminist Views of the Fallen Woman: From Hrotsvit of Gandersheim to Rebecca Prichard / by Lauren Gray McCue
• Passion, Purity and Patriotism: Melodrama and the Evangelical Divide / by Katie Neff Stone
• Notes from a Fugitive City: Situated Theater in Neoliberal Los Angeles / by Guy Zimmerman

MFA in Acting

2023

• An Actor's Creative Process in the Preparation and Performance of the Role of Mercutio in the Play Romeo and Juliet/ by Cade Holbrook

2022

• Exploring the Effects of Identity Markers and Meditation Selection: Affinity Voice / by Arizsia Staton

2021

• How do I Play my Dead Grandpa?/ by Reshma Meister
• Understanding Max / by Malik Misheaux Proctor

MFA in Music Direction

2024

• The Prom: Music Direction in the Modern Age / by Trevor Paul Bourland

MFA in Sound Design

2014

• The Modern Sound Designer in a Theatrical Team / by Matthew Robert Glenn

MFA in Stage Management

2017

• Leadership Versus Management and Needing Both to be a Successful Stage Manager/ by Nathaniel Chase

2016

• Villains, Heroes, Fools and Lovers: Stage Managers in Western Drama / by Gabrielle Koizumi