Faculty

Joe E. Jeffreys is a drag historian. He produces Drag Show Video Verite, a multi-platform project capturing, preserving and screening the moving image record of the faces and places of NYC’s vibrant drag scenes past and present, famous and forgotten. He has published in book anthologies, encyclopedias, the popular press and academic journals from Time Out New York and The Village Voice to The Drama Review, Theatre History Studies and Women & Performance. His video work has been awarded funding from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Jerome Foundation and screened at museums, galleries and festivals worldwide including the Tate Modern in London, the Façade Video Festival in Bulgaria, MOMA, The Museum of Arts and Design and as part of the opening of the new Whitney Museum of American Art.  Jeffreys has taught theatre studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Drama Department, Purchase and Stony Brook University. He has served on the board of directors for Dirty Looks, the committee for PS 122’s Ethyl Eichelberger Award and worked as dramaturg for numerous downtown and off-Broadway productions including the world premiere of Tennessee Willam’s last full length play, In Masks Outrageous and Austere.

Ph.D.--Performance Studies, New York University.

M.F.A.--Dramaturgy, SUNY Stony Brook University.

BA--English, Wake Forest University.

”Transfixed by Rose Wood.” The Live Art Almanac: Volume 3. London: Oberon Books, 2013, pp. 153-155.

“The Soundplay’s the Thing: A Formal Analysis of John (aka Lypsinka) Epperson’s Queer Performance Texts,” in James Fischer (ed), We Will Be Citizen’s: Essays on Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Playwrights. Jefferson, N.C.: MacFarland, 2008, pp. 177-184.