Odai Johnson

Head of Ph.D Program, Associate Professor
Theatre History

206-543-4183
odai@u.washington.edu

Associate Professor in theatre history and head of the Ph.D. program, took his MFA from the University of Utah and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His articles have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, New England Theatre Journal, Theatre Symposium and the Virginia Magazine of History. His books include Rehearsing the Revolution (University of Delaware 1999), The Colonial American Stage: A Documentary Calendar (AUP: 2001) and Absence and Memory on the Colonial American Stage (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005).  He is currently serving as resident researcher for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's reconstruction of the Douglass Theatre.  He has also worked as a playwright and dramaturg at Sundance and Wordbridge.

In Spring 2010 Professor Johnson will be teaching at the UW's Rome Center. The application deadline is November 30, 2009.

Staging the City: Roman Performance, Power, and Identity from Empire to Enlightenment

Additional Information:

University Week article:
"An early American theater lost ... and found"

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