Adrienne Macki

Assistant Professor, Theatre History, Literature, and Criticism, Head of Theatre Studies

Adrienne C. Macki (she/her) serves as Area Head of Theatre Studies and is an Associate Professor in Dramatic Arts and a Faculty Affiliate in the Institute for Africana Studies and the American Studies Program at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Macki’s teaching includes class in Black Theatre, Black Women Playwrights, Sports as Performance, and Introduction to Theatre. She is also interested in 19th century American drama, women in theatre, the work of G.B. Shaw, theatre in education, theatre for young audiences, devising, directing, and dramaturgy.

Her book, Harlem’s Theaters: A Staging Ground for Community, Class, and Contradiction, 1923-1939 (Northwestern UP, 2015) received the 2016 Errol Hill Award, Honorable Mention, for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Dr. Macki has authored numerous articles and essays published in Theatre Survey, Theatre Symposium, Theatre Journal, New England Theatre Journal, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Theatre History Studies, Puppetry International, The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre, Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1930s, A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage, and the Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature.

Dr. Macki has served on the boards of the American Theatre and Drama Society, the Black Theatre Network, and on the Executive Committee of the American Society for Theatre Research. She received her B.A. in Theatre from Middlebury College, Masters in Theatre Education from Emerson College, and Ph.D. in Drama from Tufts University.