Positions

Overview

  • Currently, Professor in the Department of Theatre, author of 5 major texts in theatre studies, and groundbreaking online text publication. Also, serve as director, playwright, and performer.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    2020-01-01 Equivocal Character and the Principle of Interruption.  Bloomsbury.  2020-01-01
    2019-01-01 Interrogating Polyvocality: Explorations into the Evolving Actor.  Oslo Academy Press.  2019-01-01
    2018-01-01 Polyvocal Playwriting and the Evolution in New Play Development: Examples from the EU Collective Play Project.  Praxis: The Journal for Theatre, Performance Studies, and Criticism.  2018-01-01
    2017-01-01 Collective Playwriting: A European Experience.  Theatre Times.  2017-01-01
    2017-01-01 Directing Ayckbourn (and contemporary British comedy) in an American Context: Establishing True Brit in the early rehearsal process.  International Journal of Arts and Humanities.  3:16-28. 2017-01-01
    2017-01-01 Higok Gongdong Changjak: Yureobui Gyeongheom (희곡 공동 창작: 유럽의 경험).  Korean Theatre Journal.  2017-01-01
    2017-01-01 Straight White Men.  Theatre Journal.  69:590-595. 2017-01-01
    2016-01-01 Post Dramatic and Polyvocal Trends in Contemporary Italian Theatre: Tramedautore, XV Festival International.  Theatre Forum.  2016-01-01
    2004-01-01 Using the facilitator to target your vision---from meeting to retreat.  The Department Chair.  2004-01-01
    1996-01-01 Mannerist Space in early commedia dell'arte iconography.  Theatre Symposium.  4:109-123. 1996-01-01
    1994-01-01 Mente teatrale: Andrea Calmo and the victory of the performance text in cinquecento commedia.  Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.  8:37-57. 1994-01-01
    1993-01-01 Grotesque Images in early commedia dell'arte iconography.  Theatre History Studies.  XII:45-60. 1993-01-01
    1993-01-01 Informing the New Dramaturgy: Critical Theory to Creative Process.  Theatre Topics/Johns HOpkins.  3:29-42. 1993-01-01
    1993-01-01 The scenari of the commedia dell'arte: a group discusion.  Theatre Symposium.  1:41-55. 1993-01-01
    1993-01-01 Varieties of Monologic Strategy: the Dramaturgy of Len Jenkin and Mac Wellman.  New Theatre Quarterly.  IX. 1993-01-01

    Book

    Year Title Altmetric
    2020-01-01 Collaborative Playwriting: Polyvocal Approaches from the EU Collective Plays Project.  Routledge. 2020-01-01
    2012-01-01 New Playwriting Strategies: Language and Media in the 21st Century.  Routledge Publications. 2012-01-01
    2007-01-01 Theatre Beyond: A Cyber Journey Through the World of Theatre.  Kendall Hunt. 2007-01-01
    2001-11-01 New Playwriting Strategies: A Language Based Approach to Playwriting.  Routledge. 2001-11-01
    1996-01-01 Theatrical Spaces and Dramatic Places.  Ed. 4.  Theatre Symposium. 1996-01-01
    1995-01-01 Voice of the Dramaturgy.  Ed. 3.  Theatre Symposium. 1995-01-01
    1994-01-01 The Early Commedia dell'Arte: The Mannerist Context.  Peter Lang. 1994-01-01

    Chapter

    Year Title Altmetric
    2001-01-01 "East decodes West: Russian Formalism and the New American Dramaturgy-Critical Approaches to Creative Process,".  Peter Lang. 2001-01-01
    1997-01-01 The New Playwright and the “New” Dramaturg: the Dramaturg’s Approach to the First Draft.  Harcourt, Brace. 1997-01-01

    Document

    Year Title Altmetric
    2010-01-01 Transforming Classicisim into Romanticism and Beyond in Goethe's Roman Carnival.  Neophilologus. 127-137. 2010-01-01
    2009-01-01 Eloquent Action: Body and Meaning in Early commedia dell'arte.  Theatre Survey. 2009-01-01
    2009-01-01 The grail quest: Providing entrance to Len Jenkin's theatre.  Neohelicon. 857-73. 2009-01-01
    2008-01-01 Narrative and Anti-Narrative: Televisual Representation and Non-Causal Linearity in Contemporary Drama.  Simon Fraser University MFA Thesis. 2008-01-01
    2006-01-01 Isabella Andreini (comica gelosa 1560-1604): petrachism for the theatre public.  Quaderni d'Italianistica. 71-92. 2006-01-01
    2004-01-01 Visual and Forever.....by Salvi, M.  Forum Italicum. 2004-01-01
    2000-01-01 El Recueil Fossard, la compañía de los Gelosi y la génesis de Don Quijote Julio Vélez-Sainz.  Cervantes [Publicaciones periódicas] : Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. Volume XX, Number 2, Fall 2000. 2000-01-01
    1998-01-01 Mise-en-scene of the non-Euclidean Character: Wellman, Jenkin, and Strindberg.  Modern Drama. 355-370. 1998-01-01
    1997-01-01 Narrative and Anti-Narrative: Televisual Representation and Non-Causal Linearity in Contemporary Drama.  Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. 1997-01-01
    1995-01-01 Recent Publications of Elizabethan England and Related Fields.  Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance. 643-701. 1995-01-01
    1991-01-01 A Survey of Theatres and Theatrical Practices in Lauderdale County from 1870-1929.  Mississippi Department of Archives. 1991-01-01
    Feminist Translation as Interpretation, by David J. Eshelman.  Translation Review.

    Presentations

    Research Overview

  • EU Collective Plays, Playwriting, Commedia, Italian Renaissance theatre, language playwriting, leadership.

    • Investigator On

    Teaching Overview

  • Playwriting, Criticism, Dramatic Literature, Commedia dell'Arte, Directing

    • Full Name

  • Paul C Castagno