Ryan Donovan

Ryan Donovan currently teaches courses in the arts and humanities at The New School and the School of Visual Arts. His current book project, Broadway Bodies: Recasting Difference in Contemporary Musicals (under contract with Oxford University Press), examines the body politics of casting contemporary Broadway musicals. He earned his PhD in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His article on casting and fat stigma in Broadway musicals appears in the...See more

Ryan Donovan currently teaches courses in the arts and humanities at The New School and the School of Visual Arts. His current book project, Broadway Bodies: Recasting Difference in Contemporary Musicals (under contract with Oxford University Press), examines the body politics of casting contemporary Broadway musicals. He earned his PhD in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His article on casting and fat stigma in Broadway musicals appears in the American Theatre and Drama Society special issue of The Journal of American Drama and Theatre . He is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre (with Laura MacDonald and William Everett, forthcoming 2021). Along with Joanna Dee Das, he co-edited the special issue of Studies in Musical Theatre (13.1, March 2019) on dance and musical theatre . Other writing appears in Studies in Musical Theatre , Theatre Survey , and The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical . He will serve on the incoming editorial board of Studies in Musical Theatre beginning in 2021 . See less