Dr. Nelson Barre
Assistant Professor
Department: Fine Arts
Office: 334 Olin Hall
540-375-2065
barre@roanoke.edu
Degrees
Ph.D. Drama and Theatre Studies
National University of Ireland, Galway
M.A. Theatre Studies
Villanova University
B.A. English, Theater, Classical Civilizations
Wabash College
Research & Teaching Interests
DramaturgyContemporary Theatre and Performance
Irish Theatre
Multicultural Performance Histories
New Work Development
Memory Studies
Ritual Studies
Musical Theatre
Theatre History and Historiography
Scholarly Activities
"Whitesplaining Change and Perspective in Fairview"; Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2019“'I Got Blood on My Cello!': Changing Embodiment and Labor with Actor-Musicians in Sondheim Revivals"; Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2019
"'Let’s now rehearse': Enda Walsh’s The Last Hotel and Finding Identity in Death"; American Conference for Irish Studies West 2017
"'born somewhere far from where I live': Bulrusher as Performance of Mixed Race and Space"; American Society for Theatre Research 2017
Extracurricular
DIRECTINGAn Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, in a version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Roanoke College, 2020)
Admissions by Joshua Harmon (Roanoke College, 2019)*
[title of show] by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell (Roanoke College, 2019)
The Christians by Lucas Hnath (Roanoke College, 2019)*
The Father by Florian Zeller (University of Oregon, 2018)
Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus (Staged Reading, 2017)*
The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence by Madeleine George (Summer SOUP, 2017)
* Staged reading
DRAMATURGY
smudge by Meg Schenk (New Voices University of Oregon, 2018)
Just a Shack in the Woods by Connor French (New Voices University of Oregon, 2018)
Left Hand of Darkness adapted by John Schmor (Univeristy of Oregon, 2017)
Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn (University of Oregon, 2017)
TRAINING
Texas Intensive Workshop - Society of American Fight Directors (2018)
Margolis Method - Professor Certification (2018)
Recent Publications
"'we are holding that space for you': Representation of Race in Appropriate, Straight White Men, and The Thanksgiving Play"; New England Theatre Journal, 2019“Danti-Dan: Gina Moxley’s Re-vision of Irish Womanhood and Agency”; Forthcoming in Irish Women Playwrights and Theatre-makers
“Perpetual Stagnation and Transformation: Ballyturk and The Walworth Farce as Memorial (Re)Inscription”; in Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory, 2016