June 11, 2015
Performance as Public Practice faculty members Dr. Charlotte Canning and Dr. Andrew Carlson have been named the recipients of the 2015 Department of Theatre and Dance Teaching Excellence Awards.
Canning received her doctorate from the University of Washington. She is the author of Feminist Theaters In The USA: Staging Women's Experience (Routledge, 1996) and The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance (Iowa, 2005) which won the 2006 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given each year to the best book in “theatre history or cognate disciplines.” Her most recent book is entitled Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography (University of Iowa Press, 2010) and she is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan for her next monograph, On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism. She has been published in numerous journals, including Theatre Topics, Theatre Research International and Theatre Survey, among others.
Carlson joined the theatre faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in Theatre History from the University of Illinois and a M.F.A. in Acting from Purdue University. His research interests include Shakespeare in Performance and African-American theatre history. Andrew recently published an article on minstrel adaptations of Othello in theatre history studies. Carlson is also an artistic associate with the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, MN, where he has worked since 2006. He is the education director for the festival and has helped create many programs, including Shakespeare for Young Actors, Winona Public Schools Artists in Residence and a scholarly Shakespeare Symposium that brings professional actors and scholars together for conversation with theatre-goers. As an actor at GRSF, Carlson has performed numerous roles, including "Roderigo," "Orlando" and "Hotspur."