The Resource

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 :)