Michael Chemers Bio

Dr. Michael Chemers received a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Washington in 2001, and an MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University in 1997. In 2003, he was awarded a Post Doctoral Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Arts in Society. His published work, appearing in Modern Drama, Theatre Survey, the New England Theatre Journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere, proposes and develops new historiographic models for examination of representations of disability, dissidence, and monstrosity in performance. He is active nationally in advocacy for persons with disabilities and in the preservation of academic freedom. Michael has also worked in the professional world as a dramaturg, actor, and screenwriter. Michael’s plays have won several national awards and have appeared in theatres across the US. He also collects masks from around the world and enjoys juggling things that are on fire.

	*Michael Chemers, Assistant Professor of Dramatic Literature*
	Dr. Michael Chemers received a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Washington in 2001, and an MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University in 1997. In 2003, he was awarded a Post Doctoral Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Arts in Society. His published work, appearing in Modern Drama, Theatre Survey, the New England Theatre Journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere, proposes and develops new historiographic models for examination of representations of disability, dissidence, and monstrosity in performance. He is active nationally in advocacy for persons with disabilities and in the preservation of academic freedom. Michael has also worked in the professional world as a dramaturg, actor, and screenwriter. Michael’s plays have won several national awards and have appeared in theatres across the US. He also collects masks from around the world and enjoys juggling things that are on fire.