Cheryl Black is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University
of Missouri, an actress (member of Actors Equity Association and
the Screen Actors Guild), playwright, director and dramaturge.
Black is the author of The Women of Provincetown, 1915-1922
(University of Alabama Press, 2002) and has published essays on
women's theatre and feminist theatre in Staging a Cultural
Paradigm: the Political and the Personal in American Drama (edited
by Barbara Ozieblo & Miriam Lopez-Rodriguez), Feminist
Revisions of Classic Texts (edited by Sharon Friedman), The Journal
of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre Survey, Slavic and East
European Performance, Theatre History Studies, The Journal of
American Drama and Theatre, Theatre Studies, the African American
National Biography (edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), Notable
American Women (edited by Susan Ware), and Facts on Files'
Companion to American Drama (edited by Jackson Bryer).
She is the
recipient of a University of Missouri Research Board Grant (2000),
a Summer Stipend Grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities (2003), a University of Missouri Faculty Development
Grant (2004) a Gold Chalk Award for Excellence in Graduate
Education (2006), and a Research Council Grant (2010). Black is
currently secretary of the American Theatre and Drama Society,
Executive Board Member of the Susan Glaspell Society, and Book
Review Editor of Theatre History Studies. Recent dramatic
adaptations include an audio drama, William Wells Brown’s Leap for
Freedom (co-author Renee Pringle, with assistance from mentor Sue
Zizza) for the National Audio Theatre Festival, Dracula (with LR
Hults), Much Ado About Nothing (with Patricia Downey), The School
for Scandal, She Stoops to Conquer, As You Like It (with Adrianne
Adderley), Susan Glaspell's Chains of Dew, and Jane Austen’s Pride
and Prejudice.