Jacob Gallagher-Ross

Jacob Gallagher-Ross is Associate Professor and Chair of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and a graduate faculty member at the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies. He is the author of Theaters of the Everyday (Northwestern University Press, 2018). A frequent contributor to theatre journals, his articles and essays have appeared in Modern Drama, Theatre Survey, TDR, PAJ, Theater, TheatreForum, Contemporary Theatre Review, and Canadian Theatre Review. 

His article “Interface Theatre: Watching Ourselves Disappear,” (Modern Drama, 2024), coauthored with Miriam Felton-Dansky, won the 2024 Modern Drama Outstanding Article Award, and received an honourable mention for the 2025 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Article Award. 

His article “Mediating the Method” (Theatre Survey, 2015) won the American Theatre and Drama Society’s 2016 Vera Mowry Roberts Award recognizing the year’s best article or book chapter. His article “Twilight of the Idols,” (Theater, 2020), received an honourable mention for the Canadian Association for Theatre Research’s Richard Plant Award for the best long-form article of the previous two years. 

A contributing editor of Theater, Yale’s journal of theatre criticism, reportage, and new plays, he is a guest coeditor of three special issues of the journal about theatre and new media: Digital Dramaturgies (2012), Digital Feelings (2016), and Spectatorship in an Age of Surveillance (2018). With his coeditor Miriam Felton-Dansky, he won the American Society for Theatre Research’s 2016 Collaborative Research Award for the Spectatorship in an Age of Surveillance project. 

He is the content consultant for Crash Course: Theater and Drama, a fifty-episode web series about theatre history produced by Crash Course and PBS Digital. 

He is currently collaborating with Big Art Group on the first volume devoted to their work, co-editing the first collection of Macarthur “genius” director Annie Dorsen’s writing, and co-writing a book about interface theatre.  

He was for many years a frequent contributor to the Village Voice’s theatre section, with over 120 published reviews, and also wrote theatre criticism for other US national publications.

He worked for several seasons as a dramaturg at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where his credits include The Tempest (with Christopher Plummer as Prospero), Henry V, Twelfth Night, The Matchmaker, and Cymbeline.

Selected works

Theaters of the Everyday
Village Voice author’s archive
Crash Course Theater
“Mediating the Method”
Digital Feelings and Digital Dramaturgies