PHILADELPHIA THEATRE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM AND SIGNATURE EVENTS

2022

• Theme: Theatre and Community
• Keynote speaker: LaNeshe Miller-White, Theatre Philadelphia

2019

• Theme: Adaptation
• Keynote speaker: John Collins, Elevator Repair Service

2017

• Theme: New Plays and New Play Development
• Keynote speakers: Kwame Kwei-Armah and Gavin Witt, Balitmore Center Stage

2016

• Theme: "Our Day Will Come:" Reclaiming the Feminine in Irish Theatre
• Keynote speaker: Garry Hynes, Druid Theatre Co and Abbey Theatre

2015

• Theme: Rewriting Histories: Rewriting the Past and the Plays of Sarah Ruhl
• Keynote speaker: Sarah Ruhl, playwright

2014

• Theme: Woman in Theatre: Celebrating women's contributions to American theatre as artists, scholars, and leaders
• Keynote speaker: Emily Mann, McCarter Theatre

2013

• Theme: Ethnicity, Identity, and Hybridity; The work of the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Asian and Asian-American Playwrights
• Keynote speaker: Tisa Chang, Pan Asian Repertory Theater

2012

• Theme: The Work of Elizabeth LeCompte, The Wooster Group, The Avant Garde, Textual Intervention, and Experimental Theatre Collectives
• Keynote speaker: Elizabeth LeCompte

2011

• Theme: The Work of Anna Deavere Smith,Critical Cultural Performance, Performance Ethnography and Autoethnography
• Keynote speaker: Anna Deavere Smith

2010

• Theme: The Limits of Performance
• Keynote speaker: Richard Schechner

2009

• Theme: Production Concept and Performance Analysis
• Keynote speaker: Blanka Zizka, Wilma Theatre

2008

• Theme: Media Criticism and Theatre Practice
• Keynote speaker: Toby Zinman, Philadelphia Inquirer

2007

• Theme: Theories of Performance and Practice
• Keynote speaker: Dina Amin, PhD, Villanova University