Cheryl Black

Cheryl Black is a professor of theatre, the director of graduate studies, and the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair in Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Missouri. She is the author of The Women of Provincetown, 1915–1922, as well as essays published in Staging a Cultural Paradigm: The Political and the Personal in American Drama; Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works; and Violence in American Drama: Essays on Its Staging, Meaning, and Effects.  She is the president of the American Theatre and Drama Society and a fellow of the Mid-America Theatre Conference.