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David Saltz

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Professor
Area Head and PhD Coordinator, Theatre Theory/History and Performance Studies; Executive Director, Ideas for Creative Exploration

David Saltz is Head of the Theory/History area and the PhD program in Theatre and Performance Studies, Executive Director of UGA Arts Collaboration, and Executive Director of ACTR. He is a specialist in performance theory, theatre and performance history, digital media, and directing. His primary research focuses have been the  philosophy of theatre and performance, and the interaction between live performance and digital media. He was Principal Investigator of Virtual Vaudeville, a large-scale research project funded by the National Science Foundation to simulate a nineteenth century vaudeville performance on the computer. He has explored the use of computer technology extensively in his own work as a director and teacher. Along those lines he established the Interactive Performance Laboratory at UGA, has directed a series of productions incorporating real-time interactive digital media, and has created interactive sculptural installations that have been exhibited nationally. He is co-director for the NEH Institute on Digital Technologies in Theatre and Performance Studies. He is co-author (with Sarah Bay-Cheng and Jennifer Parker-Starbuck) of Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field (University of Michigan Press, 2015), coeditor (with David Krasner) of the book Staging Philosophy: Intersections between Theatre, Performance and Philosophy (University of Michigan Press, 2006), coeditor (with Martin Kagel) of Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori (University of Michigan Press, 2022), and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and books. Dr. Saltz received a Sandy Beaver Special Teaching Award in 2008. He has served as Secretary of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and as co-editor and then editor of Theatre Journal from 2006-2009, and has held multiple elected positions on the Commission on Accreditation and the Executive Board of the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST), for which he current serves as Vice-President Before coming to Georgia, Dr. Saltz taught at State University of New York at Stony Brook and The College of William and Mary.

Education:

Ph.D., Stanford University

B.A., Yale University

Grants:

Virtual Vaudeville: A Live Performance Simulation System (NSF)

Institute for Digital Performance in Theatre and Performance Studies (NEH)

Courses Regularly Taught:
Articles Featuring David Saltz

ATHENS, GA – UGA Theatre presents “Alcestis” by Euripides, directed by David Saltz, and freely adapted by UGA students Gabrielle Sinclair, Taryn Nicole Spires, and Jeannie Thomas, Oct. 7-9 at 6 p.m. and…

FALL 2021 AUDITIONS: Euripides’ Alcestis & Rent

Department of Theatre & Film Studies, University of Georgia

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In collaboration, Kennesaw State University, the University of Georgia, Emory University, and Walton High School will host a series of guest live presentations by top-notch theatre visionaries on Zoom Webinar during the Spring semester of 2021. The guests…

The Department would like to congratulate Jason Woodworth-Hou, winner of the 4’33” Research in the Arts Competition.

Events with David Saltz
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My Graduate Students


Anna Corbould

PhD Performance Studies

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