Sean Edgecomb
EDUCATION
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Ph.D., Drama, 2009, Adviser: Laurence Senelick
Dissertation Title: "Still Ridiculous: The Legacy of Charles Ludlam and The Ridiculous Theatre Movement in America, 1987-2007."
Emerson College, Boston, MA
M.A., Theatre Education, 2004
University of Maine, Orono, ME
B.A., English Literature, 2001
Emerson College, Boston, MA
Intensive Acting Training; Voice and Movement (Linklater, Meisner, & M. Chekhov Methods)
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
"Queer Kinesis/Moving Queers," Local Practices and Global Queerness, Eds. Alyssa Campbell
and Stephen Farrier (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2013).
"Not Just Any Woman: Bradford Louryk, A Legacy of Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous
Theatre for the Twenty-First Century." We Will Be Citizens: New Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theatre, Ed. James Fisher (Jefferson NC: McFarland and Co., 2008), pp.56-78.
" 'It was simply human...' Gender Subversion in Children's Performance."
Transgressing Gender: Two is not enough for gender equality: the Conference Collection,
Eds. Amir Hodžić and Jelena Poštić. (Zagreb: CESI-Center for Education/ Women's Room, April 2006) (Editions in English, Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian), pp. 100-116.
Journal Articles
"The Ridiculous Performance of Taylor Mac." Theatre Journal, 64:4, Ed. Penelope Farfan (Dec. 2012)
"Inharmonious Pursuits: Performing Racism at the Olympic Games." Popular Entertainment Studies,
2:2, Ed. Victor Emeljanow, September 2011, pp. 5-20.
"A History of the Ridiculous, 1960-1987." Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, Ed. Richard Schneider, May/June 2007, pp. 21-22.
Kampania Wyrzucić go Jakub Bidgood." Panoptikum: Audiovizualia- Film/Media/Sztuka, 6:13, Ed. Lena Dula,. April 2007 (Translated into Polish), pp. 18-19.
"Camping Out with James Bidgood." Bright Lights Film Journal, no. 52 Ed. Gary Morris, May 2006.
Other Publications
"Drag," "Parody," "Pastiche," "Gender as Performance."
Reading Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres. Eds. Gabrielle Cody & Meiling Cheng, (New York: Routledge, expected 2013).
"Boy, Girl, Wall presented by The Escapists," Contemporary Theatre Review, 22:1, 2012, p. 184.