Margaret is a Brooklyn-based theatre maker and scholar whose work focuses on the intersection of performance and the history of neurological impairments.
Having completed her BA in political science from Johns Hopkins University, Margaret went on to earn an MFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University and the Moscow Art Theatre School. With the desire to combine her practical work in the theatre with the scholarly study of performance and culture, Margaret returned to academia, earning a PhD. in Theatre History from the Graduate Center CUNY.
Margaret has served as the Managing Editor of the journal?Slavic and East European Performance. She has written on contemporary Eastern European theatre as well as published several performance and book reviews. She has presented papers at leading academic conferences, including those of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the American Society of Theatre Research, and the International Federation for Theatre Research. Her current scholarly project examines New York variety performances of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the ways in which they represented various neurological conditions, such as hysteria and epilepsy.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Theatre