Nicole Anderson Cobb (MS ’16, journalism) shared her experience with historical research and theater-making in the newly released edited volume .
Dramaturgy and History provides a practical account of an aspect of dramaturgical practice that is often taken for granted: dramaturgs鈥� engagements with history and historiography.
Anderson Cobb鈥檚 chapter centers on her time as an artist-in-residence at Allerton Park & Retreat Center in Monticello, Illinois, in collaboration with Latrelle Bright.
鈥淚 hope my essay 鈥楤eyond Land Acknowledgement: Rendering Central Illinois History along the Potawatomi Trail of Death鈥� will be useful for other scholars, and theater-makers and those interested in remembering complex histories in their local spaces,鈥� she said.