Erin Mee

Ph.D. '04

Erin Mee

Erin B Mee teaches in the drama department at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Her theatre company, This Is Not A Theatre Company produces site-specific plays, including the critically acclaimed Pool Play (in the Waterside pool), Ferry Play (a podplay for the Staten Island Ferry), and the multi-lingual Subway Plays (podplays for the N, L, and 7 trains). Her production Cafe Play, which takes places during dinner at the historic Cornelia Street Cafe in the West Village, is being remounted this September, October, and November (2018), and includes the voice of Kathleen Chalfant as a talking teacup.

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Education

New York University

Ph.D. - Performance Studies

New York, New York

Conferences & Symposiums

• 2019: “Tasting Rasa.” ASTR Working Session “Food and Performance”
• 2019: “Rasa and/in Digital Performance.” IFTR. May.
• 2019: “Cooling Down,” Workshop in Steinhardt Theatre and Health Conference. April.
• 2018: “Rasa On The Move.” ASTR Working Session “Performance and/as Arousal in Global Asia”
• 2018: “Podplays as Tourist Attractions.” Tomorrow’s UrbanTravel, Copenhagen. October.
• 2017: “Les Cinqs Sens,” Lecture-Performance-Dinner with Chef David Bouley, September.
• 2017: “Diasporic Theory,” at “Stages in Transition: South Asian Diaspora,” Hunter College, April.
• 2017: “iTheatre.” International Theatre Festival of Kerala, February.
• 2016: “Dancing on the Tongue.” ASTR, November.
• 2016: Panelist on “Race Conscious Casting” at Barnard College.
• 2016: Lecture on Theatre of Roots at Community College of Philadelphia, May.
• 2016: Panelist on “Necessary Exposure” panel, Dixon Place.
• 2016: Panelist on “Interactive Theatre” panel organized by StoryForward.
• 2012: “Kutiyattam; The Abandonment of Sita,” a pre-performance lecture at The Asia Society. September 8.
• 2011: Co-Convener “Performing Tragedy Trough a Non-Western Lens” Conference at the Columbia University Center for the Mediterranean. With Helene Foley.

Awards & Distinctions

• 2016: ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Theatre and Performance Scholarship for born digital article

Performances

• Cafe Play - Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC
• Pool Play - International Theatre Festival of Kerala and NYC
• Ferry Play - podplay for the Staten Island Ferry
• Subway Plays - multi-lingual podplays for the Staten Island Ferry
• Festival of Life - podplay for Avignon Le Off

Articles & Publications


• 2019: Roundtable Discussion on ethics of site-based theatre. Special issue of Theatre History, ed Penelope Cole and Rand Harmon. Forthcoming.
• 2019: “Undefining the World.” In Great North American Stage Directors, Vol 5, ed Joan Herrington. Methuen. Forthcoming.
• 2019: “Relishing Performance: Rasa as Participatory Sense-Making.” In Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance, and Cognitive Science, ed Rick Kemp and Bruce McConachie.
• 2019: “Towards A Sustainable Aesthetic Theory.” HowlRound. 
• Theatre of Roots
• Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage
• Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000
• Drama Contemporary: India
• 2018: “Dancing on the Tongue.” In Special Issue of Performance Research.
• 2017: “Rasa On Screen.” In Reti, Saperi, Linguaggi: Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences.
• 2017: “The Rasa of Immersive and Participatory Theatre” In Immersive Theatre: Engaging the Audience.  Josh Machamer, ed. Common Ground.
• 2016: “The Audience Is The Message: Blast Theory’s App-Drama Karen.” TDR.
• 2016: “The Neuroscience of Spectatorship.” In Reti, Saperi, Linguaggi: Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences.
• 2015    “Charles Mee’s (Re)Making of Greek Drama,” In The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas. Bosher, MacIntosh, McConell, and Rankine, eds.
• 2015: “Actor,” “Spectator,” “Reception Theory,” “Hybridity,” “Performativity” in Reading Contemporary Performance, Cody and Cheng, eds. Routledge.
• 2015    “Rasa Is/As/And Emotional Contagion” In Natyasastra: Aesthetics, Epistemology & Performance Practice, edited by Sreenath Nair. McFarland Press.