MICRO-BIO

• Currently an Assistant Director of Theater at Coe College, Deanna was brought in to help reshape the theater program of this small liberal arts college to reflect the changing diverse student population. She hold an MFA in Directing from Columbia Un...More

  Currently an Assistant Director of Theater at Coe College, Deanna was brought in to help reshape the theater program of this small liberal arts college to reflect the changing diverse student population. She hold an MFA in Directing from Columbia University New York and a Ph.D in Theater History and Criticism and from University of Colorado Boulder. Her research is a rediscovery of the work of three queer black female playwrights in the years 1915 -1920, identifying them )the work and the playwrights) as early practitioners of a queer black feminist performance aesthetic, for which she is currently developing a manuscript. As an artist-scholar, Deanna's current and future work, at its core, focuses on radicalizing the arts, including arts education, for, by, with and in community.

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EXPERIENCE

• Coe College

  • Assistant Professor
  • Theatre
  • Present

EDUCATION

• University of Colorado Boulder

  • Ph.D.
  • August 2010 to May 2015

• Columbia University New York School of the Arts

  • MFA
  • August 2000 to December 2004

• Eastern University

  • Bachelors
  • August 1993 to December 1997

Links

• Deanna Downes LinkedIn