Education
Ph.D., Theatre History/Criticism, University of Texas Austin
M.F.A., Theatre: Directing, University of Utah
B.F.A., Theatre Arts, Texas Christian University
Regional and Thematic Interests
Transnational/Comparative
Literature and the Arts
Profile
Bud Coleman is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado at 羞羞视频 and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance. A former dancer with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Fort Worth Ballet, Kinesis, and Ballet Austin, he has directed/choreographed聽Seussical,听A Grand Night for Singing,听Pippin,听Wonderful Town,听Songs in the Key of . . . Caffeine聽(also librettist),听A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,听The Mikado,听Into the Woods,听Merrily We Roll Along,听Lysistrata,Dames at Sea,听Hair,听Six Degrees of Separation, the opera聽Being of Sound Mind, and numerous other productions.聽Professor Coleman has a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Texas at Austin, and his publications have appeared in the聽St. James Press Gay & Lesbian Almanac, qlbtq.com,听New York Native,听Theatre History Studies,听The Austin American-Statesman,听Theatre InSight, and聽Choreography and Dance. With co-editor Judith Sebesta, they published聽Women in American Musical Theatre: Essays on Lyricists, Writers, Arrangers, Choreographers, Designers, Producers, and Performance Artists, 2007. In addition to being a playwright, Professor Coleman鈥檚 writing includes analytical articles on the performance of gender, musical theatre, and American Theatre History.
Selected Publications
2013 Coleman, Bud, and Pamyla Stiehl. Back Stage Pass: A Survey of American Musical Theatre. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.
2013 鈥溾�楪ive Us More to See鈥� 鈥� The Visual Worlds of Stephen Sondheim.鈥� In The Oxford Handbook to Sondheim Studies, edited by Robert Gordon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.