Honors Thesis Graduates Spring 2025

“We Need New Forms!”: The Dramaturgy of Experimental Productions of The Seagull

Luke Wisniewski
Thesis Advisor ~ Alisa Zhulina

 

Sound Tomorrow’s Shakespeare: The Intercultural Voice of Shakespeare in Ong Keng Sen’s Adaptations of King Lear

Sophie Massey
Thesis Advisor ~ Alisa Zhulina

 

Beyond the Gaze: Performing Femininity and Staging the Self Through the Works of Clare Barron and Paula Vogel

Madison Torkoff
Thesis Advisor ~ Alisa Zhulina

 

Identifying Dramaturgies of Identity: Authentic Representation, Essentialized Empathy, and the Lokash Test for Casting the Non-Visible in North American Theatre

Julian Lokash
Thesis Advisor ~ Lauren Whitehead

 

Transformation, Reversal, and Wiving it Wealthily: The Arcane, Attempted, and Capitalist in Shakespeare & Fletcher’s Padua

Libby Ronon
Thesis Advisor ~ Laura Levine

 

“The Scam of Rebirth”: Change and Progress in Elena Ferrante and Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Alicia Steinmann
Thesis Advisor ~ Laura Levine