Drama Research

02/11/2025

It was a joy to launch our recently published book, Global Climate Education and Its Discontents: Using Drama to Forge a New Way to a packed audience. Thanks to all who joined us! We couldn’t have imagined a better way to celebrate the diverse voices and approaches we’ve assembled to press drama into service to better understand, and respond to, the climate crisis.

Order your copy today: https://tinyurl.com/5ar84tab

01/16/2025

Dr. Gallagher on her recent book:

“...this book takes ‘discontent’ – restlessness, vexation, unease – as a productive disposition for troubling accepted, simple, and ‘solutions-oriented’ climate narratives.”
Read full interview here:

https://shorturl.at/7D9wY

11/01/2024

New Book Alert:
This innovative book offers pedagogical insights and artistic tools on how drama can be used in educational settings to advance creative climate education.

Order your copy, shipping now: http://surl.li/qoqcxy

07/21/2023

Listen to Dr. Amanda Buffalo’s powerful pitch for the MIT Indigenous Communities Fellowship: her project will create a community-sourced Indigenous knowledge research database to map experiences of injustice and violence in the Yukon in order to tell the stories statistics can't.

Click on the link to register and vote!

https://shorturl.at/moxHR

07/19/2023

Vote now for our colleague Dr. Amanda Buffalo, whose project is a finalist in an MIT competition, to create a community-sourced Indigenous knowledge research database that will map experiences of injustice and violence in the Yukon in order to tell the stories statistics can't.

https://shorturl.at/moxHR

Please register and vote today!

03/28/2023

“...it is not the presence of confidence but the absence of insecurity that is most important to the student of drama, and to the creative spirit generally.”

To mark International Theatre Day, Dr. Kathleen Gallagher shares some salient reflections about her life and research in theatre.

https://bit.ly/3nupUk5

11/26/2022

Submission date approaching!

Assistant Professor - African and/or Afro-Caribbean Theatre and Performance

10/18/2022

A wonderful opportunity for a technical director!

PLEASE NOTE DEADLINE EXTENDED: the closing date to apply for the technical director opening at the has been extended to Oct. 17/22 by 11:59PM ET.

The has an exciting opportunity for a new technical director! Join our creative team at Canada's highest ranked university. The closing date to apply by is Sep 28/22 11:59PM ET. For more details and to read the job description, visit https://bit.ly/3UAn7lo

10/11/2022

Beyond thrilled to share the details of a powerful conversation between Dr. Kathleen Gallagher and Andrew Kushnir on a recent episode of the Stageworthy Podcast with Phil Rickaby Stageworthy Podcast

https://stageworthy.ca/334-dr-kathleen-gallagher-andrew-kushnir/

09/22/2022

Very excited to share the details of the new release by our dear friend and collaborator of

In Andrew’s beautiful words: “Between the covers are the two scripts along with essays by me and Khari, a verbatim dialogue between us talking about the power of encounter, about theatre as ritual, about how friendship and creativity can commingle. And it has a radically good foreword by GG-winning poet Cecily Nicholson.”

Order your copy here: https://bit.ly/3S6CdNB

06/16/2022

Next week, we launch Hope in a Collapsing World at Streetcar Crowsnest in Toronto (Yes...it is in-person! Please be vaccinated and have a mask).

Tickets are free, but please RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hope-in-a-collapsing-world-book-launch-tickets-349832908647

06/02/2022

📚🎉 Very excited to share that Dr. Kathleen Gallagher and Andrew Kushnir will be hosting an in-person book launch (at Streetcar Crowsnest theatre in Toronto) to celebrate the release of their most recent collaboration Hope in a Collapsing World.

RSVP for this masked and vaccinated event here https://bit.ly/38M1Jqg

Tickets free, but they are moving fast. So reserve your spot today!