ryan adelsheim

Ryan Adelsheim is a new play dramaturg, producer, and scholar. Their current research focuses on the aesthetics and politics of unfinishedness in American queer and trans theater, dance, and performance, with writing appearing in or forthcoming in Theater, Performance Response Journal, and Modern Drama. Recent artistic credits include New Harmony Project conference dramaturg, 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 Emerging Playwrights Commissions with Audible Theater. Ryan received their MFA and doctorate from Yale Drama and they are currently an assistant professor of theater history and performance studies at the University of Iowa.