Samuel Yates

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  Samuel Yates, Ph.D., is a deaf artist and researcher who examines the aesthetics of disability and performance. Samuel is currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre in the School of Theatre at The Pennsylvania State University. They previously were on faculty at Millikin University, American University, and The George Washington University (GWU). Samuel received their Ph.D. in English from GWU, where their dissertation research earned the American Society for Theatre Research’s Helen Krich-Chinoy Dissertation Fellowship and the Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship. They completed an M.Phil in Theatre and Performance Studies from Trinity College Dublin as a George J. Mitchell Scholar and a B.A. from Centre College as a John C. Young Scholar. Samuel’s current monograph project, Cripping Broadway: Producing Disability in the American Musical, concerns disability aesthetics and accessibility practices in Broadway musicals, and asks how our notions of disability and the able body inform and transforms theatrical performance. Research Cripping Broadway has been supported by ATDS and, most recently, the 2021 ASTR Grant for Researchers with Heavy Teaching Loads. Samuel holds a Humanity in Action Senior Fellowship for their work on performance and body politics, and has artistically collaborated with theaters such as the Abbey Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, The Huntington, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Samuel Beckett Centre, and Gala Hispanic Theatre. Beyond the theatre, Samuel has worked as arts and accessibility consultant with Gensler Architecture, Great Plains Theatre Commons, and 3Arts Chicago. Their work on disability, performance, and popular culture is published or forthcoming in The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Music Theatre Today, Studies in Musical Theatre, and Medicine and Literature, as well as edited volumes such as The Matter of Disability (U Michigan), A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury), and Monsters in Performance: Essays on the Aesthetics of Social Disqualification (Routledge). His broader teaching and research interests include representations of disability and accessibility issues in the arts. As a researcher and artist, he explores dramaturgical processes of artistic creation, cultural economism and commercial musical theatre, theatre as a nation-building tool, and documentary/multi-media theatre forms. Penn State University

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  Samuel Yates, Ph.D., is a deaf artist and researcher who examines the aesthetics of disability and performance. Samuel is currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre in the School of Theatre at The Pennsylvania State University. They previously were on faculty at Millikin University, American University, and The George Washington University (GWU). Samuel received their Ph.D. in English from GWU, where their dissertation research earned the American Society for Theatre Research’s Helen Krich-Chinoy Dissertation Fellowship and the Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship. They completed an M.Phil in Theatre and Performance Studies from Trinity College Dublin as a George J. Mitchell Scholar and a B.A. from Centre College as a John C. Young Scholar. Samuel’s current monograph project, Cripping Broadway: Producing Disability in the American Musical, concerns disability aesthetics and accessibility practices in Broadway musicals, and asks how our notions of disability and the able body inform and transforms theatrical performance. Research Cripping Broadway has been supported by ATDS and, most recently, the 2021 ASTR Grant for Researchers with Heavy Teaching Loads. Samuel holds a Humanity in Action Senior Fellowship for their work on performance and body politics, and has artistically collaborated with theaters such as the Abbey Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, The Huntington, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Samuel Beckett Centre, and Gala Hispanic Theatre. Beyond the theatre, Samuel has worked as arts and accessibility consultant with Gensler Architecture, Great Plains Theatre Commons, and 3Arts Chicago. Their work on disability, performance, and popular culture is published or forthcoming in The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Music Theatre Today, Studies in Musical Theatre, and Medicine and Literature, as well as edited volumes such as The Matter of Disability (U Michigan), A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury), and Monsters in Performance: Essays on the Aesthetics of Social Disqualification (Routledge). His broader teaching and research interests include representations of disability and accessibility issues in the arts. As a researcher and artist, he explores dramaturgical processes of artistic creation, cultural economism and commercial musical theatre, theatre as a nation-building tool, and documentary/multi-media theatre forms.

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  Samuel Yates has prior experience in the following industries:
  Millikin University , The George Washington University , American University , Johns Hopkins Center For Talented Youth , Centre College , The George Washington University , The Eugene Oneill Theatre Center , The Abbey Theatre , Eugene Oneill Theater Center , Centre College , The Cento , Koch Family Childrens Museum Of Evansville , The Cento , Centre College , Oral Surgery

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  Penn State University , Millikin University , The George Washington University , American University , Johns Hopkins Center For Talented Youth , Centre College , The George Washington University , The Eugene Oneill Theatre Center , The Abbey Theatre , Eugene Oneill Theater Center , Centre College , The Cento , Koch Family Childrens Museum Of Evansville , The Cento , Centre College , Oral Surgery .

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