Search
Marlis Schweitzer
Marlis Schweitzer is a professor of theatre and performance at York University, Toronto. She is the author of When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion and American Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) and Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance (Palgrave, 2015). Her most recent book, Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century (University of Iowa Press, 2020), received the George Freedley Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association. With Laura Levin, Marlis is the co-editor of Performance Studies in Canada, recipient of the 2018 Patrick O’Neill Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research for best edited book. She is a member of the Royal Society College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and a tier 2 York Research Chair in theatre and performance history. She is the past editor of Theatre Research in Canada and Theatre Survey and a former president of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. She currently serves as a director of Critical Costume.
Contact: Room 318, Centre for Film and Theatre, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J1P3, Canada.