Chair and Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of Theatre
Education
M.F.A. Yale School of Drama (2001)
D.F.A. Yale School of Drama (2006)
Courses
THEA 239 STU
Introduction to Dramaturgy: The Art & Practice of Storytelling (not offered 2025/26)THEA 272 / ENVI 271 STU
Theatre & Environment: Site, Nature, Ecoperformance, Utopia (not offered 2025/26)THEA 345 SEM
Contemporary American Theatre: Poetry, Politics, Place (not offered 2025/26)Bio
Amy Holzapfel is Professor of Theatre and the current Gaudino Scholar at Williams College. She is the author of Art, Vision & Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama: Acts of Seeing (Routledge 2014), which explores how modern theories of vision in art and science impacted the rise of realism in theatre. She has published articles in Contemporary Theatre Review, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, The Journal of Dramatic Theory & Criticism, Modern Drama, and Theater, as well as chapters in the anthologies: Spatial Turns: Space, Place and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture (Rodopi 2010); The Oxford Handbook on Dance & Theatre (Oxford 2015); The Routledge Companion to Scenography (Routledge 2017); and August Strindberg & Visual Culture (Bloomsbury, 2019). Her current book-in-progress, Choral Turns: Performing the Chorus in the Ruins of Democracy, traces receptions and social applications of the dramatic chorus across performance networks of Western democracies. She received her M.F.A. (2001) and D.F.A. (2006) in Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama.