Article by Miriam Felton-Dansky Wins Award From the University of Toronto Press
Miriam Felton-Dansky, director of the Theater and Performance Program.
An article coauthored by Miriam Felton-Dansky, director of the Theater and Performance Program at Bard College, has won the 2024 Modern Drama Outstanding Article Award from the University of Toronto Press. “Interface Theatre: Watching Ourselves Disappear,” which Felton-Dansky wrote together with Jacob Gallagher-Ross of the University of Toronto, is a timely analysis and assessment of theatrical responses to and engagement with digital culture. The essay explores the concept of what they have termed “interface theatre,” illuminating a genre in which live performance lays bare the invisible architectures of digital life. This new conceptual framework explains how theatre can not only depict but also embody the logics of algorithmic life, revealing how interfaces shape identity, surveillance, and the perception of self. The essay also received an honorable mention for the 2025 Outstanding Article Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, one of the largest scholarly organizations in the field.
Bard’s Theater and Performance Program offers an interdisciplinary, liberal arts-based approach to the making and study of theater and performance, and embraces a wide range of performance practices, from live art and interactive installation to classical theater from around the globe.
Post Date: 08-19-2025
Bard’s Theater and Performance Program offers an interdisciplinary, liberal arts-based approach to the making and study of theater and performance, and embraces a wide range of performance practices, from live art and interactive installation to classical theater from around the globe.
Post Date: 08-19-2025