Amber Palson

Amber Palson is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies specializing in LGBT American theater and documentary theater, as well as queer historiographical and archival practices. Their work explores theater as an expression of historiographical and archival research, and how documentary theater allows theater practitioners of marginalized identities to revive and care for the past, recontextualize the present as the future’s history, and imagine their futures. Amber has presented a variety of research concerning documentary theater, LGBT theater, and digital performance at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Arts of the Present Conferences, the Mid-America Theatre Conference, and the Women and Gender Studies Consortium.