Angela (Angie) Sweigart-Gallagher

Associate Professor and Department Chair Performance and Communication Arts Department
Education

PhD Theatre Research, Minor: Curriculum and Instruction
University of Wisconsin

MA Theatre Research
University of Wisconsin

BA English and Theatre
Mary Washington College (now University of Mary Washington)

Angie Sweigart-Gallagher

Angie is a theatre scholar and practitioner whose work in both domains often focuses on political theatre and performance. She also specializes in applied theatre as a teaching and learning tool. 

She is currently an Associate Professor of Performance and Communication Arts at St. Lawrence University where she teaches beginning and advanced acting courses, as well as courses in Political Theatre and Performance, Drama for Teaching and Learning, Arts Administration & Marketing, and Theatre, Sustainability, and the Natural World. 

As a director for University Theatre, Angie focuses on collaborative approaches to theatre-making. She enjoys working with student actors and is committed to helping inexperienced theatre artists develop their own artistic processes and voice.

Publications

Book:

2014    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela and Victoria P. Lantz, editors. Nationalism and Youth in Theatre and Performance, Routledge, 2014.

Articles (Peer Reviewed):

2021    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “Don’t Go in the Worknest”: Rule-making and Rule-breaking in Anne Negri’s With Two Wings, Youth Theatre Journal, vol. 35, no. 1-2, pp. 15-24.

2020    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela and Victoria P. Lantz. “Staging American Girlhood the Pleasant Way,” Youth Theatre Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, 2020, pp. 3-15.

2019    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela and Melissa C. Thompson. "Satire as Strategy for Resistance and Persistence in A Series of Modest Pronouncements," Theory in Action, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2019, pp. 75-98.

2017    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. "Poor Piper: Academic Performances and Maternal Interruptions Made Public. "On the Maternal" a special issue of Performance Research, vol. 22, no.4 October 2017, pp. 102-104.

2015    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela and Aaron C. Thomas. “The Location’s the Thing: Endstation Theatre Company and Dramaturgies of Place,” Theatre Topics, vol. 25, no. 1, March 2015, pp. 25-35.

2014    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “Playing Patriots: The Role(s) of Child Protestors in the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party Movements,” Youth Theatre Journal, vol. 28, no.1, 2014, pp. 74-86.

2012    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “John Hunter Booth’s Created Equal: A Federal Theatre Model for Patriotism.” The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, vol. 24, no.2, Spring 2012, pp. 67-88.

2009    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “The Promise of Democracy: Imagining National Community in Paul Green’s The Lost Colony." Theatre Symposium, vol. 17, 2009, pp. 97-112.

Book Chapters:

2023    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “A Raisin in the Sun’s Theatrical Legacy,” Critical Insights: A Raisin in the Sun, edited by Peter Bailey, Salem P, 2023, pp. 214-231. 

2018    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela and Kristin Hunt. "An Ethical Balancing Act: Student Labor and Project-Based Learning," The Performing Arts as High-Impact Practice, edited by Susan Kattwinkel and Michelle Hayford, Palgrave Publishing, 2018, pp. 136-146. 

2014    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “‘Raising the Next Generation of Patriots’: The Use of Applied Theatre and Drama Techniques in the Tea Party’s Vacation Liberty Schools,” Nationalism and Youth in Theatre and Performance, edited by Angela Sweigart-Gallagher and Victoria P. Lantz, Routledge, 2014, pp. 34-49.

Book and Play Reviews:

2024    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “Vermont Stage 2022-2023 Season,” New England Theatre Journal, vol. 35, 2024, in production.

2023    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “Vermont Stage 2022-2023 Season,” New England Theatre Journal, vol. 34, 2023, pp. 203-204.

2022    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “Vermont Stage 2021-2022 Season,” New England Theatre Journal, vol. 33, 2022, pp. 221-224.

2021    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “Vermont Stage 2019-2020 Season,” New England Theatre Journal, vol. 32, 2021, pp. 192-195.

2020    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela “Vermont Stage 2019-2020 Season,” New England Theatre Journal, vol. 31, 2020, pp. 222-225.

2019    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “Vermont Stage 2018-2019 Season,” New England Theatre Journal, vol. 30, 2019, pp. 169-172.

2017    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “A Review of Roe by Arena Stage, a co-production with Oregon Shakespeare,” PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research, vol. 1, no. 2, June 2017, Article 11. 

2013    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “Brewed: A Performance Review.” Theatre Journal, vol. 65, no. 3, October 2013, pp. 418-420.

2013    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “Staging the People: Community and Identity in the Federal Theatre Project” (Book Review). By Elizabeth A. Osborne. Theatre Journal, October 2013, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 448-449.

2010    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela. “Bluest Water: A Performance Review.” Theatre Journal vol. 62, no. 2, May 2010, pp. 298-301.

Competitively Reviewed Publications:

2020    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela and Kristin Hunt. "Sarah Kane's Blasted." How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays, edited by Miriam Chirico and Kelly Younger, Bloomsbury Methuen Publishers, pp. 271-273.

2019    Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela and Melissa C. Thompson. "Performance Materials: All Night Check," "21st-Century Shifts in Spectatorship and Audience Research," Performance Matters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 88-97.

Other Publications:

2020    Hughes, Erika and Angela Sweigart-Gallagher, “Reevaluating intergenerational performance in the time of COVID-19.” Youth Theatre Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2021, pp 114-117.

Courses Taught:

FRPG Do-It-Yourself Theatre

PCA 107 Beginning Acting

PCA 111: Rhetoric and Public Speaking 

PCA 307 Characterization

PCA 250 Research Methods

PCA 332 Directing

PCA 373 Drama for Teaching and Learning

PCA 375 Theatre, Sustainability, and the Natural World 

PCA 340 Performance Art

PCA Special Topics: Arts Administration & Management