The Resource
Welcome to the resource section of my thesis!
Here you will find a link to the videos I’ve made thus far and a Very Large reading list for if you want to learn more on your own!
Video Series
The Reading List
This is about to be Very Very long, I am so sorry! These readings are all in the general categories of disability education, theatre education, disability theatre, art and theatre history, education, acting, movement, directing, and media studies. I would divide it up by section but they overlap each other so much that it would be difficult to do so. Instead I’m going to list them in the order that I read them. My favorites will get stars before them (If it doesn’t have a star it might become a favorite, I just haven’t read it yet!)
Alright here we go
*Theatre Histories: An Introduction by Tobin Nellhaus et al.
Theatre & Sexuality by Jill Dolan
Theatre & Protest by Lara Shalson
*Theatre & Disability by Petra Kuppers
*Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction by Petra Kuppers
*The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media by Bree Hadley
The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability by Keri Watson, Timothy W. Hiles
Contemporary Art and Disability Studies by Alice Wexler, John Derby
Monstrous Kinds- Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability by Elizabeth B. Bearden
Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater by Katherine Schaap Williams
Disability Theatre and Modern Drama: Recasting Modernism (Critical Companions) by Kirsty Johnston
Theatre & the Body by Colette Conroy
*Bodies in Commotion by Carrie Sandahl
*Disability Aesthetics by Tobin Anthony Siebers
Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body by Michael Davidson
Research Methods in Theatre and Performance (Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities) by Baz Kershaw
Theatre & Feeling by Anna Bogart
Theatre & Therapy by Fintan Walsh
Theatre & Mind by Bruce McConachie
Theatre & Knowledge by David Kornhaber
Theatre, Education and Performance by Helen Nicholson
Disability and Theatre by Stephanie Barton Farcas
Signs of Change: New Directions in Theatre Education by Joan Lazarus
*Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms by Joe Feldman
The Art of Advocacy: A Parent’s Guide to a Collaborative IEP Process by Charmaine L Thaner
*Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training by Petronilla Whitfield
Barrier-Free Theatre: Including Everyone in Theatre Arts -- in Schools, Recreation, and Arts Programs -- Regardless of (Dis)Ability by Sally Bailey
Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training: Sensing Shakespeare by Petronilla Whitfield
*The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre by Scott Graham & Steven Hoggett
Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen
How to Direct a Play: A Masterclass in Comedy, Tragedy, Farce, Shakespeare, New Plays, Opera and Musicals by Braham Murray
Sense of Direction: Some Observations on the Art of Directing by William Ball
A Director Prepares by Anne Bogart
Movement for Actors (Second Edition) by Nicole Potter, Barbara Adrian, & Mary Fleischer
An Introduction to Theatre, Performance, and the Cognitive Sciences by John Lutterbie
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Book and Play)
*Letters to a Young Artist by Anna Deavere Smith
Up in the Cheap Seats: A Historical Memoir of Broadway by Ron Fassler & Jeff York
*Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai
*Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life by Margaret Price
*Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
Disability and Art History (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies) by Ann Millet-Gallant
Picturing Disability by Robert Bogden
Shakin’ All Over: Popular Music and Disability by George McKay
Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy by Philippa Kelly
Seven Pillars Acting: A Comprehensive Technique for the Modern Actor by Sonya Cooke
Freeing the Actor: An Actor's Desk Reference by Eric Morris
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery
The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built by Jack Viertel
Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway by Michael Riedel
*Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
*Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
*Staging Stigma: A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show by Michael Mark Chamers
Beyond Victims and Villains: Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights
Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection by Anne Finger
Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe by Julia Miele Rodas
I also have about 40 research papers/articles bookmarked, those will be included in the video descriptions where they’re used! And if you have specific questions for me about any of these books, you’re welcome to send me a message on instagram or send me an email!
Happy reading :)