Maya Cantu is Dramaturgical Advisor at Off-Broadway's Mint Theater Company, where she most recently worked on "Chekhov/Tolstoy: Love Stories." She teaches theater history and dramaturgy on the Drama Faculty at Bennington College. She is the author of "Greasepaint Puritan: Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes" (University of Michigan Press, 2024) and "American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage: Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Maya is the 2020 recipient of the American Theatre and Drama Society’s Vera Mowry Roberts Research and Publication Award for her essay, “Beyond the Rue Pigalle: Recovering Ada 'Bricktop' Smith as 'Muse,' Mentor and Maker of Transatlantic Musical Theatre,” published in Reframing the Musical: Race, Culture, and Identity (ed. Sarah Whitfield, Red Globe Press/Springer Nature Ltd. 2019).

Broadway musicals and plays of the modernist era; American theater and drama; American musical theater; women in theater and feminist theater; classical theater; studio-system Hollywood; and intersections of stage and screen; variety theater (i.e. neo-vaudeville and burlesque)

English, French

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