Bio
I am a writer and dramaturg. I received my doctorate in Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism at Yale in December 2021, having received my MFA from that department 2018.
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I am the editor of Toward a Just Pedagogy of Performance: Historiography, Narrative, and Equity in Dramatic Practice (Routledge, 2023) and the author, with Scott W. Stern, of Shakespeare's Margaret: The Dramatic Life of a Warrior Queen (W. W. Norton, 2026). I am currently completing my next book, Theatre for a New Age: Queer Performance in 1970s San Francisco.
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I have taught at Yale College, Connecticut College, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of San Diego.
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As a theatre maker, I have worked at Page 73, the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Yale Cabaret and Summer Cabaret, the Goodman Theatre, the Bay Area Playwright's Festival, Jackalope Theatre, and many other theatres. My critical writing has been published in TDR, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Republic, Theatre Survey, The New England Theatre Journal, QED, and on Indiewire, Lambda Literary, Daily Kos, and elsewhere.
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At Yale, I served as the Artistic Fellow at the Yale Repertory Theatre, was an affiliate at Branford College, and was co-convener of the Performance Studies Working Group, an interdisciplinary group of scholars working in Performance Studies at Yale.
In 2020, I created the LGBTQ+ Archive Project, a digital assembly of resources for LGBTQ+ study.
I currently work on literary projects at the California Arts Council. I live in Oakland, CA with my family.
Contact
charleswbomalley at gmail dot com