Jason Dorwart, PhD, is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater at Oberlin College, and recently directed the late John Belluso’s Body of Bourne about WWI era essayist, pacifist and disability rights advocate Randolph Bourne and is currently directing a Zoom version of Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror. He has also worked as a dramaturg, director, editor, and PR/Communications Director for various theaters and nonprofits. Jason teaches Theater History, Disability Studies, Improv, Critical Theory, Dramaturgy, and Devised & Community Based Theater.

Jason has two books under contract for 2021 release: The Incorporeal Corpse: Performing Disability in the Liminal Stage, and Routledge’s Alternative Careers for the Performing Arts: Succeeding as a Creative Professional. The book is a guide to navigating literary, front-of-house, and research-based theatrical careers, from an intentionally inclusive and transnational perspective.

Jason has been a guest on the Disability Visibility Podcast and his work has appeared in Focal Press’s Acting for the Stage: Succeeding as a Creative Professional, the Routledge Companion to Art and Disability, TheatreForum, where he also served as Lead Editor, The Denver Post, The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Dis-eased: Critical Approaches to Disability and Illness in American Studies, Gale Cengage’s Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives, and in a chapter on disability, anxiety, and performance on Cutthroat Kitchen for McFarland’s forthcoming book, The Food Network: Essays on the Televised Performance of Cooking. His dissertation in Drama & Theatre was awarded the 2017 University of California San Diego Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal for Arts & Humanities. Jason is also a stand up comedian and an former actor in Phamaly Theatre Company. He and his wife, Laura, live in Ohio with their two-year-old daughter.

Find them both on Twitter at @HamOnWheels and @laurawritesit.