Lindsay B. Cummings is an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches script analysis, dramaturgy, and courses on theater for social change, documentary theater, and Latina/o theater. Her research focuses on dialogue and affect in political performance and theater for social change. Her book, Empathy as Dialogue in Theatre and Performance, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. Other published work can be found in the journal Performance Research and in The Theatre of Naomi Wallace: Embodied Dialogues (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Cummings is also a dramaturg. Her dramaturgic credits include Band of the Black Hand and The Curious Case of Phineas Gage (both with Split Knuckle Theatre), The Bourgeois Gentleman (Cornell University), and Leaving Queens (Portland Stage Company). She received her PhD from Cornell University.
David Dorfman
Dancer/choreographer David Dorfman received his MFA from Connecticut College (1981) and now chairs its dance department. Through a Guggenheim fellowship (2005), he researched power, activism, dissidence, and underground movements, leading to the production of underground at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival (2006). Dorfman has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts, an American Choreographer’s Award, the first Paul Taylor Fellowship from The Yard, and a 1996 New York Dance & Performance Award (Bessie). David Dorfman Dance has appeared at numerous venues in NYC and around the world, and will celebrate its 30th anniversary with the premiere of Aroundtown in 2017. Dorfman recently had his Off-Broadway choreographic debut with INDECENT at the Vineyard Theater.