Joshua Edelman

Joshua Edelman is Fellow in Research and Enterprise at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. He studied theology and religion at Harvard and St Andrews and theatre at Trinity College, Dublin. He serves as co-convener of the International Federation for Theatre Research’s Performance and Religion Working Group.

Christian Life, Politics and an Audience’s Authority

Since last autumn’s Theatrical Theology conference at St Andrews, I’ve been mulling over Shannon Crago-Snell’s sophisticated and helpful reading of theatre as a metaphor for Christian life, specifically her refusal to assign particular roles to particular beings or groups –…

Mike Daisey’s False Witness

Mike Daisey, the truth-stretching monologist, has apologized for fabricating evidence about Foxconn, the Apple manufactory in Shenzhen, China, and has changed the script of his show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. But not before offering this defence…

Joshua Edelman
7 July 2012