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.

Theatre, Theology3 May, 2013

Christian Life, Politics and an Audience’s Authority

By Joshua Edelman

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…

Christianity and the Theatre, Theatre, Theology7 July, 2012

Mike Daisey’s False Witness

By Joshua Edelman

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…