{"id":48751,"date":"2020-11-16T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/?page_id=48751"},"modified":"2020-11-16T21:11:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:11:44","slug":"adams-jr-charles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/adams-jr-charles\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams Jr., Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Adams is a dramaturg, director, playwright, theatre historiographer, teaching artist, facilitator, and Theatre of the Oppressed Joker. At Augsburg he mostly teaches history\/criticism classes such as Script Analysis and Theatre Histories I, but at other institutions he has also taught Devising Theatre, Children\u2019s Dramatic Literature, Performance and Social Change, Introduction to Theatre, Theatre Theory and Practice, Playwriting, Dramatic Activities in the Classroom. Theatre in Education (TIE), and Theatre of the Oppressed. His research interests include theatre and social change\u2014especially in the fields of TIE and critical performative pedagogies, theatre and young people, community-based theatre, and Theatre of the Oppressed. Charles enjoys exploring questions such as \u201cWhat is the labor that theatre does;\u201d \u201cHow can theatre transform the world;\u201d and \u201cHow do history and the present moment intersect to create meaning?\u201d His academic writing can be found in Theatre Journal<\/em>, Learning through Theatre (3<\/em>rd<\/sup><\/em> edition), <\/em>and The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the Oppressed.<\/em><\/p>\n

As an applied theatre artist, Charles has worked in numerous unusual-seeming partnerships, including with the Minnesota Vikings! Charles spent five years as a playwright in residence, four years as a member of an improv-based theatre company for young people, and over 20 years as a teaching artist, training novice teaching artists and Joker\/facilitators. He has also trained educators in embodied pedagogies working to resist the dehumanizing effects of banking model types education. Since 2007 Charles has been the treasurer of the board of Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed and helped to organize annual conferences and gatherings to connect community organizers, teachers, artists, Jokers, and activists working to engage the arts and education as forces for social justice and transformation around the world. He has also been a fan of Doctor Who since he was 12 years old. Charles holds a BA in English and French and an MSE in English and Drama from Harding University, an MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth from the University of Texas at Austin (with emphases in playwriting\/dramaturgy, directing, and Theatre in Education), and a PhD in Theatre Historiography from the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n

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Education<\/h2>\n
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  • BA Harding University<\/li>\n
  • MSE Harding University<\/li>\n
  • MFA University of Texas at Austin<\/li>\n
  • PhD University of Minnesota<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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