Courtney Elkin Mohlerhttp://webpages.scu.edu/ftp/cmohlerCourtney Elkin Mohler joined the faculty of the Theatre Department in Fall 2010 as an Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow. Mohler holds a Ph.D. in Critical Studies in Theater from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also earned her B.A. in Theater with an emphasis in Acting. Due to her lifelong obsession for making theater, she has acted in, directed and served as a dramaturg for over forty productions throughout California. Some recent directing credits include Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter (California State University, Dominguez Hills), The Last Judgment & Laundry and Lies (Alliance Repertory Company), and the original play Sunshine (UCLA Summer Acting and Performance Institute). Bridging her research and artistic interests, she has worked closely with the Project HOOP (Honoring our Origins and our Peoples through Native American Theater) and the professional Native American theatre company Native Voices at the Autry. Mohler’s doctoral dissertation examines how Native American and Chicana/o culture is generated, transformed and sustained through theatre and public festival performance. She has presented this research at national theatre conferences and has also contributed a chapter to American Indian Performing Arts: Critical Directions gleaned from this work. Additionally, she has published an article in a special edition on “Staging Genders” in Platform and has another forthcoming in Text and Presentation. Dedicated to youth theatre and theatre for social justice, Mohler has volunteered with the Unusual Suspects Theatre Company as part of the Los Angeles Gang Reduction Youth Development program and presented a paper on her experience at the 2009 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference. |
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