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Amy Steiger is an Associate Professor of Theater and Department Chair of the Performing Arts Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland, with additional affiliation in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program. Her work integrates theater practice with critical social theory, emphasizing community engagement and decolonial approaches to performance.
Her academic credentials include:
- B.A. in Dramatic Arts and English from Macalester College (1993)
- M.A. in Theatre History, Criticism, Theory and Text from the University of Texas at Austin (2001)
- Ph.D. in Performance as Public Practice from the University of Texas at Austin (2006)
Dr. Steiger's research examines power structures in theater through feminist, queer, postcolonial, and materialist lenses. She pioneers community-engaged performance methodologies that challenge whiteness and patriarchy in actor training, while developing frameworks for theater as critical research praxis. Her practice-based scholarship positions performers as embodied critical thinkers.
Her 2023 publication analyzes Stanislavsky's legacy through reparative justice frameworks, revealing how whiteness shaped American theater professionalization. This work exemplifies her broader scholarly trajectory investigating race, gender, and resistance in performance history and pedagogy.
At St. Mary's, Dr. Steiger directs innovative productions including student-devised social justice projects like "Humanizing Histories: Seven Short Plays About Resistance" and pandemic-response theater "Checking In". She has also staged site-specific Shakespeare at Historic St. Mary's City and contemporary works addressing gender and power dynamics.
