Publications
peer-reviewed article “Engaging the Audience: Cultivating Stakeholders, Collaborators, and Partners” Theatre Topics, vol. 25 (June 2015): 139-148
book review Not Magic But Work: An Ethnographic Account of a Rehearsal Process (Gay McAuley) Theatre Topics, vol. 25 (June 2015)
book review The Philosophy of Improvisation (Gary Peters) and Composed Theatre: Aesthetics, Practices, Processes (ed. Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner) Theatre Annual, vol. 65 (2012)
program note “Coming of Age: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1962”
Arena Stage presentation of Steppenwolf’s production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2010-11 contributing editor for online resource: Sub/Text: Your Virtual Dramaturg, Arena Stage, audience enrichment articles on R. Buckminster Fuller and Edward Albee
chapter “Voice Embodied: Rhetoric at the Intersection of Writing and Performance” in What is the New Rhetoric? ed. Susan Thomas, Cambridge Scholars Press (2007)
peer-reviewed article “Rehearsal As Cartography: Some Challenges for Metaphor and Practice” Ohlandt-Ross, D. in About Performance, #6 (2006): 109-120, journal published by the University of Sydney
peer-reviewed article “Playing the Line: Language Games in the Plays of Tom Stoppard” Ross, Dee. in Text & Presentation, v. 23 (April 2002): 99-106, journal of the Comparative Drama Conference
Dissertation
“Trying to Relate: Disability and the Politics of Representation in Contemporary Theatre”
University of Michigan, 2006 | dissertation chair: E. J. Westlake
winner 2007 Michael Myatt Distinguished Dissertation in Disability Studies Award
dissertation abstract | 12-page dissertation overview (.pdf download)
Conference Papers & Seminars
“Starving Artists? Exploring (and Advancing) Radical Economies of Theater”
convened and chaired seminar at the 2011 American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) conference seminar description
“‘Tutu-Clad Studs’ and ‘Pseudo Ballerinas’: The ‘Body Language’ of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo”
paper presented on the 2010 ASTR conference panel: “New Cartographies: Mapping Identity Politics in Theatre and Dance” abstract
“The Appearance of Authenticity: Adapted & Artificial Language(s) in Deaf Theatre”
paper presented at the 2007 Performance Studies International (PSi) conference: “Event/Performance/Happening” abstract
“Actors in the Mist: Observing Theatre Artists in Their Natural Habitat”
paper presented on the 2006 ASTR conference panel: “Live Subjects: The Pleasures and Perils of Field Research” abstract
“Science or Art? A (Postmodern) Matter of Life and Death”
paper presented on the 2006 ATHE conference panel: “Abra Cadaver: The Dead Body in Performance and Spectacle” abstract
“Speaking As / Speaking For: Mental Illness as Disability in Theatrical Performance”
paper presented at the 2006 Society for Disability Studies (SDS) conference abstract
“Voice Embodied: Putting Performance Studies (Back) into Rhetoric, or the Other Way Around”
paper presented at the University of Sydney 2005 conference: “What is the New Rhetoric?” abstract
“Getting Into History: the Problem with People in Historical Re-enactments”
paper presented at 2005 Australasian Association for Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) conference: “Journeys to the Interior” abstract
“Casting Strategies as a Site of Aesthetic Refusal”
paper presented at the Philament journal (University of Sydney) 2005 conference: “The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal” abstract
“Considering Bodies in Evaluating Taste”
roundtable seminar convened and chaired for the 2004 ASTR conference: “Accounting for Taste” seminar description
“Bodies of Research: On Acting, Ethnography, and Disability”
paper presented to the 2004 International Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies (ICATS) seminar for invited PhD students abstract
“Form and Function: Disabled Characters in 20th Century Drama”
paper presented at the 28th Comparative Drama Conference (2004) abstract
“Purely Formal Bodies: ‘Characters Who Act’ and Witkacy’s Theory of Pure Form”
paper presented at the 27th Comparative Drama Conference (2003) abstract
“Toward a Responsible Portrayal of Blindness: Casting ‘Across Ability’ in Friel’s Molly Sweeney”
paper presented at the 2002 ASTR conference roundtable seminar: “The Material Considerations of Casting” abstract
D. Ohlandt, Ph.D. 