In 2023 – 2024, Northwestern University hosted the “On Decolonizing Theatre” Sawyer Seminar. For more information about our seminar topic and events, please navigate through this website’s content. If you have any questions, please see the “Project Leaders” page to email any of our professors or postdocs.

Funded by a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, the Northwestern multi-disciplinary project “On Decolonizing Theatre” features a series of events and curricular offerings during the 2023-2024 academic year on the theme of how performers and theater directors have been grappling with issues relating to colonialism, imperialism, racism, patriarchy, and misogyny in theatrical works from the late 17th through the early 19th century, including plays, operas, and ballets.