RYAN ADELSHEIM 

Ryan Adelsheim is an interdisciplinary scholar of American performance, trans studies, and queer archives and Assistant Professor of Theater History and Performance Studies at the University of Iowa. Their current research focuses on the aesthetics and politics of unfinishedness in American queer and trans theater, dance, and performance. An active artistic collaborator, recent credits include dramaturg for the New Harmony Project, co-adaptor for Affinity based on the novel by Sarah Waters with director Alex Keegan, dramaturg and researcher for soldiergirls by Emil Weinstein and Emily Johnson-Erday, and producer on the Emerging Playwrights Commissions with Audible Theater. Ryan received their doctorate and MFA from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism and BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Theater magazine, Performance Response Journal, Routledge's Dramaturgy and History anthology, and Modern Drama.