Ryan Adelsheim is a dramaturg, researcher, and educator. Their research interests include queer and trans drama and performance, the archive, and women playwrights. Ryan currently serves the Associate Editor for Theater Magazine, and as a new play dramaturg on projects including their co-adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Affinity at the Yale School of Drama, soldiergirls by Em Weinstein, and the world premiere production of The Displaced by Isaac Gomez at Haven Theater in Chicago. They have dramaturged or produced for companies including Audible Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Baltimore Center Stage, the Goodman Theater, Writers Theater, American Theater Company, Philadelphia Theater, and Barrington Stage, among others. Recent awards include the John W. Gassner Memorial Prize for best critical essay submitted to Theater Magazine B.A.: University of Pennsylvania, M.F.A. in Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism: Yale School of Drama ’22.

New play dramaturgy; queer theater & performance; trans theater & performance; adaptation; archival research/archives; musical theater, musical theatre; queer aesthetics; solo performance

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