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Isaiah Matthew Wooden
Isaiah Matthew Wooden, Ph.D., is a director–dramaturg, critic and assistant professor of theatre arts at Brandeis University. He has staged new and canonical works in both the United States and abroad, including plays by Eisa Davis, Charles L. Mee, Lynn Nottage, Nilaja Sun and Mary Zimmerman. Recent dramaturgy projects include: Ifa Bayeza’s The Till Trilogy, Nambi E. Kelley’s Native Son and Psalmayene 24’s Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a Native Son at Mosaic Theatre Company. Wooden publishes widely on contemporary African American art and drama – from the plays of Lydia Diamond, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Robert O’Hara to the performance work of Derrick Adams, Jefferson Pinder and Adrian Piper. He is currently at work on a monograph that explores the interplay of race and time in contemporary Black expressive culture and co-edited the book Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theater, Performance, and Collaboration (Northwestern University Press, 2020).
Contact: Spingold Theatre Center, Brandeis University, MS 072, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA.