E-mail: claudia.case@lehman.cuny.edu
Phone: 718-960-8244
Office: Speech and Theatre Building, Room 110
Office Hours: By appointment requested via Navigate
Rank: Associate Professor
Degrees: B.A., Auburn University Montgomery; M.F.A., D.F.A., Yale School of Drama
Claudia Wilsch Case (she/ella) teaches theatre history, dramatic literature, and theory in the Theatre Program at Lehman College. She has also taught seminars in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center and the core Arts & Humanities course in Lehman College’s MA Program in Liberal Studies. She holds a doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama and researches modern American theatre, American musical theatre, and American dance theatre. Dr. Case’s scholarship has been published in a number of peer-reviewed books and in Theatre Journal, the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Theatre Symposium, the Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Performing Arts Resources, Theater magazine, and TheatreForum. She has presented her research at national and international conferences, including ASTR, ATHE, and IFTR. As a dramaturg and published literary translator, Dr. Case has worked on German and American plays that have been produced in the United States, Germany, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and India. Since 2019, Dr. Case has served as a volunteer child advocate for the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.
Recent Publications
- Dramaturgical Consultant, German-language version of the comedy Clue (Cluedo: Das Mörderspiel) by Sandy Rustin (adapted from various sources). Berlin, Germany: Theater-Verlag Desch/Felix Bloch Erben, 2023.
- “‘One of the best ways to please the locals is to go to New York’: American Regional Theatres and New Musical Theatre Development.” In The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre Producers, edited by Laura MacDonald and Ryan Donovan with William A. Everett, 436-49. New York: Routledge, 2022.
- Translator, Teenage Dick (based on Shakespeare’s Richard III) by Mike Lew. Frankfurt, Germany: S. Fischer Verlag, 2022.
- “The Architecture of Local Performance: Stages of the Taliesin Fellowship.” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 32.2 (2020): 22 pages.
- “Broadway Bound: La Jolla Playhouse as a Laboratory for New American Musical Theatre.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers, edited by Laura MacDonald and William A. Everett, 377-83. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- “Refining the Tastes of Broadway Audiences: The Theatre Guild and American Musical Theatre.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers, edited by Laura MacDonald and William A. Everett, 153-61. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
