Cheryl Black is a Curators Distinguished Professor Emerita from the University of Missouri, where she was also Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair in Fine and Performing Arts from 2015-20. She is a Fellow of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, a Fellow of the Mid-America Theatre Conference, and a former President of the American Theatre and Drama Society. She is the author of The Women of Provincetown, 1915-1922 (University of Alabama Press, 2002), co-editor, with Jonathan Shandell, of Experiments in Democracy: Interracial and Cross-Cultural Exchange in American Theatre, 1912-1945 (SIU Press, 2016), co-editor, with Sharon Friedman, of Decades of Modern American Drama: the 1990s (Bloomsbury Methuen 2018), editor of Broadway Luminaries: Great North American Stage Directors (Bloomsbury Methuen 2020), and has published essays in Susan Glaspell in Context, ed. By J. Ellen Gainor (Cambridge University Press, 2023), American Literary Culture in the 1920s (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Blackwell’s Companion to American Literature, ed. by Susan Belasco, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Linck Johnson and Michael Soto (Wiley Blackwell, 2020), Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage (2020), Staging a Cultural Paradigm: the Political and the Personal in American Drama (edited by Barbara Ozieblo & Miriam López-Rodriguez, 2003), and numerous journals. Recent dramatic adaptations include Performing Bohemia: The Masses, the Players, and The People, Pride and Prejudice, The School for Scandal, Hedda Gabler and Dracula (with LR Hults), Much Ado About Nothing (with Patricia Downey), As You Like It
(with Adrianne Adderley), andWilliam Wells Brown’s Leap for Freedom (co-author Renee Pringle, with assistance from mentor Sue Zizza) for the National Audio Theatre Festival. She is a member of AEA-SAG and has directed 20+ productions at the University of Missouri during her professorship there.