Hank Willenbrink, Editor
Hank Willenbrink is a scholar/artist and the author of Performing for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Trump Era (Routledge 2023), an exploration of religious performances in support of Donald Trump. His essays have been published in Ecumenica, Theatre Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review, Theatre Forum, and online. Hank’s play The Boat in the Tiger Suit premiered at The Brick Theater (NYC) and is published by Original Works Publishing. His work has been seen and developed at Sala Beckett (Barcelona), Performance Highways, WordBRIDGE, quiet, and World Interplay International Festival of Young Playwrights (Australia). Hank’s monologues have been featured in Monologues for Men by Men, More Monologues for Men by Men, and Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2014. He holds degrees from the University of Tulsa and University of California, Santa Barbara. Hank is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Theatre at The University of Scranton.
Alicia Corts, Assistant Editor
Alicia Corts is an independent scholar/artist. Her research deals with the creation of identity in virtual spaces, specifically in relation to gender construction. Her work has appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Symposium, and Ecumenica, and she is has also contributed to a number of edited volumes. In addition to her research activities, Alicia directs on a regular basis, including work as a co-founding member of WITS: Women in Theatre in the Southeast.
Arnab Banerji, Secretary-Treasurer
Arnab Banerji is Associate Professor of Theatre History, Literature, and Dramaturgy at the Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. His primary areas are contemporary Indian performance, translation of Indian plays, and performance of identity by the South Asian diaspora. He is the author of Contemporary Group Theatre in Kolkata (Routledge, 2020). His essays on Indian performance, Asian American performance, translation of South Asian plays, and diaspora identity performance have appeared in Asian Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, Theatre Journal, Ecumenica, BOOM California, Studies in Musical Theatre, Sanglap, TDR, Southeastern Review of Asian Studies, Cerebration, and Virginia Review of Asian Studies.
Carla Lahey, Book Review Editor
Carla Lahey is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Belmont University, where she coordinates the BFA in Theatre Education program. She graduated with her M.S. in Theatre for Theatre Educators from Florida State University and a PhD in Theatre from Louisiana State University, Carla’s research interests center on the intersections between Christianity and performance, with a focus on youth-based performance in evangelical churches. She has presented her research at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, SETC Theatre Symposium, and the American Society for Theatre Research.
Joy Brooke Fairfield, Performance Review Editor
Dr. Fairfield helps develop, produce, and document new theatre/performance work that aims for collective liberation. A teacher of western theatre practice and a student of decolonizing strategies, Dr. Fairfield is an associate professor at Rhodes College in Memphis TN, a member of the Society for Directors & Choreographers (SDC) and an intimacy director with Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE). Her/their past and current artistic collaborators include Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Knight & Brinegar, Dragonfly/Robin LaVerne Wilson, and Leigh Hendrix. Joy’s writing has been included in the Journal for Dramatic Criticism, Studies in Musical Theatre, and several edited volumes.
Ambre Dromgoole, Performance Review Editor
Ambre Dromgoole is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and a Provost Faculty Fellow at Cornell University. She received her doctorate from Yale University where she matriculated through the Departments of Religious Studies and African American Studies. Her work centers the composition, perception, and projections of Black sacred soundings across different social contexts, the ways that gender is (re)constituted in these spaces, and the artistic innovation that occurs outside the purview of traditionally recognized social, educational, and ecclesial institutions. She has published and presented this research in a variety of venues including the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the Journal of Ethnomusicology, the American Academy of Religion, and the American Studies Association.
Editors can be contacted using the following:
- Editor: editor <at> ecumenicajournal <dot> org
- Performance Reviews Editor: performancereviews <at> ecumenicajournal <dot> org
- Book Reviews Editor: bookreviews <at> ecumenicajournal <dot> org