Megan Stahl

Megan Stahl

Aidekman Arts Complex

Education

  • PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies, Tufts University, Medford, United States
  • MA in Theatre and Performance Studies, Tufts University, Medford, United States
  • BA in Drama and English, Tufts University, Medford, United States

Biography

Megan Stahl (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Theater at Boston Conservatory at Berklee where her teaching and research focus on MENASA plays and performances, musical theater, and feminist theater. Her chapter, "The Ties That Bind: Motherhood, Veiling, and Diasporic Subjectivity in Rohina Malik's Unveiled," is forthcoming as part of an edited volume from Routledge in 2023, and she is currently working on co-editing a volume of plays by MENASA women writers. Her articles and reviews have also been published in Studies in Musical Theatre, Theatre Journal, Theater Annual, and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Currently, Stahl serves as Conference Co-Planner for the Women and Theatre Program, and is a founding member and secretary for the Middle Eastern Theatre Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

Stahl holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Tufts University, and has taught courses at Boston College, Tufts University, Northeastern University, and Pine Manor College. She has presented papers at various regional and national conferences, and has guest lectured at a number of universities. Prior to entering academia, she worked at the Roundabout Theatre Company and the American Repertory Theater, and was an assistant agent in the Theatre Department of the William Morris Agency (now WME) in New York.