Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre and Performance: Indigenous Spaces

Jaye T. Darby is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She has published widely in Native theatre and transformative studies. With Geiogamah, she co-edited American Indian Performing Arts: Critical Directions and two other volumes on Native performance. She is also co-editor of the collection Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women's Theater with Stephanie Fitzgerald.

Courtney Elkin Mohler (Santa Barbara Chumash) is Associate Professor of Theatre at Boston College. She co-authored Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre and Performance: Indigenous Spaces (2020) and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in Indigenous theatre. As a stage director and dramaturg, Mohler is dedicated to supporting new work by Native American playwrights. Some recent dramaturgy credits include Pure Native by Vickie Ramirez at Geva Theatre, Desert Stories for Lost Girls by Lily Rushing at Latino Theatre Company/Native Voices at the Autry, and The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota) at Virginia Stage Company.

Christy Stanlake is a Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, where she directs the Academy's theatre program. With research interests in Native American theatre and performance, dramaturgy, and literature, Stanlake authored Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective (2009) and co-authored Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre: Indigenous Spaces (2020) with Jaye Darby and Courtney Elkin Mohler. Stanlake has applied theories of Native theatre to her direction of JudyLee Oliva's Te Ata and Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs; both productions toured to the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC.

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is professor of theatre arts at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA, the author and editor of ten books including The Empire Triumphant: Race, Religion and Rebellion in the Star Wars Films, and a contributor to numerous volumes on sci-fi, pop culture and religion, including essays on Godzilla, Star Wars, and Battlestar Galactica. His areas of expertise include Japanese theatre, African theatre, Shakespeare, Greek tragedy, stage combat and comedy. He is co-editor with Patrick Lonergan of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series.

Patrick Lonergan is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at University of Galway, Ireland.