"Miss Julie at the University of Pennsylvania: A Case Study in Shared Student-Faculty Theatre Research," New England Theatre Journal, 20 (2009), 104-111.
"Historicizing Spontaneity: The Illusion of the First Time of 'The Illusion of the First Time,'" in Shakespeare's Sense of Character: On the Page and From the Stage, ed. Yu Jin Ko and Michael W. Shurgot (Farnham: Ashgate 2012), pp. 85-98. (The volume includes a response from Tiffany Stern: "(Re:)Historicizing Spontaneity: Original Practices, Stanislavski, and Characterization"; my response to her response, commissioned by the editors, is available here,)
"Echoes: Shakespeare, the Reviewer, and the Theatre Historian, Revisited," forthcoming in a special issue of Shakespeare, ed. Paul Prescott.
Introduction and Chapter Two: Granville Barker, in The Great Shakespeareans 15, ed. Cary M. Mazer (London: Bloomsbury., 2013), pp. 1-6, 55-97.
Roberta Barker and Kim Solga, with Cary Mazer, "'Tis Pity She's a Realist: A Conversational Case Study in Realism and Early Modern Theatre Today," Shakespeare Bulletin 31:4 (Winter 2013) 571-97.
"Documenting the Demotic: Actor Blogs and the Guts of the Opera Singer," forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
"Statues: Mary Anderson, Shakespeare, and Statuesque Acting,"
seminar on
"Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare," Shakespeare Association of America
Conference, Albuquerque, 1994.
Participant, seminar on "Living in the Gap," Shakespeare Association of
America Conference, Chicago, 1995.
"Shakespearean Acting Within and Against Emotionalist Paradigms or, How
Many Super-Objectives Had Lady Macbeth?," panel on "Early-Modern
Subjectivity,
Twentieth-Century Acting," Shakespeare Association of America Conference,
Chicago, 1995.
Oscar Wilde and Society Drama," seminar for teachers, Delaware Theatre
Company, 1995.
Chair, panel on "The Theatre of Ideas," with Tom Stoppard and members of
the Philadelphia Theatre Community, Steinberg Symposium, University
of Pennyslvania, 1996.
Co-Chair, seminar on "Shakespeare and the Twentieth-Century Director:
"Populist" Shakespeare, International Shakespeare Assocaition
Conference, Los Angeles, 1996.
"When Paradigms Change: Writing about the Actor," seminar on
"Writing about Performance," Shakespeare Association of America
Conference, Washington, DC, 1997.
"Beside Oneself: Self-Address, Pronouns and Personation in
Shakespearean Representations of Character," seminar on "Addressing
the Envelope," Shakespeare Association of America, Cleveland, 1998.
"'Wounds Invisible': Personation and Empathy in As You Like It," Seminar on "'A lover or a tyrant?': The Early
Modern Subject
as Actor," Shakespeare Association of America, San Francisco, 1999.
"'The Teares of Ten Thousand Spectators': Historicizing Emotion and Audience Response in Early-Modern Theatre,"
Seminar on
"Laughter and Tears: Historicizing Emotion and Audience Response," Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal, 2000.
"Learning to love Fallacious Characterology,"" Columbia Shakespeare Seminar, 2001.
Chair, Seminar on "Personation," Shakespeare Association of America, Miami, 2001.
"The Intentional-Fallacy Fallacy: The Dramaturg, the Director, and the Script," conference on "The Invisible Art:
Dramaturgy in American Theatre" in honor of the retirement of Lee Devin, Swarthmore College, 2003. (See
Publications: Articles.)
"Confidence Men: The Dramaturg and the Theatre Historian," Seminar on
"Documenting Performance/Performing the
Document," American Society for Theatre Research, Durham, 2003.
"Rosalind's Breast," Seminar on "Cross-Dressing in Contemporary Performances of Shakespeare," Shakespeare
Association of America, New Orleans, 2004. (See Publications: Articles)
"Not Not Shakespeare: Directorial Adaptation, Authorship, and Ownership," Seminar on "Altering the Past,
Directing thePresent: Adaptations and Appropriations of the Early Modern Canon," Shakespeare Association of America,
Bermuda, 2005. (See Publications: Articles)
"Frames: The Play Within the Play Outside the Play," conference on Shakespeare in Performance II, Drew University,
2005. (See Publications: Articles)
"The Spear-Carrier under the Platform, or, the Perils of Documentation," Shakespeare Association of America,
Philadelphia, 2006.
"Dramaturgy, Scholarship, and the Ethics of the Rehearsal Room," seminar on "Live Subjects: The Pleasures and Perils
of Field Research," American Society for Research, Chicago, 2006.
"Shakespeare, the Reviewer, and the Theatre Historian, Revisited," seminar on "Performance Criticism: The State of
the Art," Shakespeare Association of America, San Diego, 2007.
"Echo Chambers," Shakespearean Performance Research Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Phoenix, 2007.
"What Directors Can’t/Won’t Teach Scholars, What Scholars Can/Can’t/Do/Don’t Learn From Directors," seminar on
"What Can Scholars Learn from Play Directors/ What Can Directors learn from Scholars?" Shakespeare Association of
America, Dallas, 2008.
"The First Thing We Do is Kill All the Editors: Towards a Rehearsal-friendly Shakespeare Script," Literary
Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas conference, San Diego, 2008.
"Performance without Performativity," seminar on "Shakespeare and Performance Theory," Shakespeare Association of
America conference, Washington, DC, 2009.
"Historicizing Spontaneity: The Illusion of the First Time of 'The Illusion of the First Time,'" Shakespeare and
Performance Working Group, American Society for Theatre Rearch, San Juan, 2009.(se publication: articles)
Co-Chair, seminar on "Shakespeare and Emotional Realism on the Modern Stage," Shakespeare Association of America conference, Chicago, 2010.
"Transhistoricizing Affect: Empathic Spectatorship Then and Now, " Shakespeare and Performance Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Seattle, 2010.
"Shakespeare and Stanislavski 2.0, " Shakespeare and Performance Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal, 2011.
"Performer, Identity, Performance: The Emotionally-Realist Actor in the Post-Modern Role," Shakespeare and Performance Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville, 2012.
Chair, Seminar on "Contemporary Actors and Evidence, " Shakespeare Association of America, Toronto, 2013.
"Our Frames, Ourselves," Shakespeare and Performance Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Dallas, 2013.
"Annabella's Bed and Juliet's Chair, "Seminar on "Exhibiting the Early Modern: Gestus, Memory, Space," Shakespeare Association of America, St. Louis, 2014.
"'Original Practices' and Modernism: the case of Granville Barker," Shakespeare and Performance Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Baltimore, 2014.
"Double Shakespeares," Stockton Performing Arts Center, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, 2015; Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2015; University of Scranton, 2016.
"Self-Evidence: Performance as Research," Shakespeare and Performance Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Portland, 2015.
"Transactions: Not, Not-Not, and Not-Not-Not Shakespeare," Shakespeare and Performance Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Minneapolis, 2016.
"History Has its Eyes on You: A How-To Guide to Controlling Who Lives, Who Dies, Who tells Your Story," Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, 2017.
Electra, Euripides,
Theatre Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania, 1983.
Richard II, Shakespeare, Theatre Arts
Program, University of
Pennsylvania, 1989. Reviewed in Shakespeare Bulletin 7 no. 3
(May/June
1989) 15-16.
Playing with Peter (incorporating the
text of Peter Pan by
J.M. Barrie), Theatre Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania, 1990.
The Duchess of Malfi, Webster, Theatre
Arts Program, University of
Pennsylvania, 1992. Reviewed in Shakespeare Bulletin 12 no. 2 (Spring
1994) 29-30, along with "Space, Signs, and Voyeurism in The Duchess of
Malfi: An Interview with Cary M. Mazer," by Jean Peterson, pp. 28-29.
Miss Julie, August Strindberg, Theatre
Arts Program, University of
Pennsylvania, 1995.
A Dream
Play, after the play by August Strindberg,
Theatre Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania, 1996 (also at the 1996
Edinburgh Fringe Festival).
The
Two Gentlemen of Verona, William Shakespeare, Theatre Arts
Program, University of Pennsylvania, 1999. Analyzed in Sarah Werner, Shakespeare and Feminist Performance:
Ideology on
Stage
(London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 96-104.
Old Times, by Harold Pinter, Theatre Arts
Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
Major Barbara, G. Bernard
Shaw, Theatre Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
Transfixed, an original documentary theatre piece conceived and compiled by Elisa Asencio, Nikhil Dhingra, Ali-Reza Mrsajadi, and Richard Norman, University of Pennsylvania, 2010.
Look/Alive, an original adaptation of stories by Ovid, Grimm, Anderson, and others, conceived and adapted with the cast, Theatre Arts Program, 2011 (and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival).
All's Well that End Well by William Shakespeare, Theatre Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
The Spanish Tragedy, Thomas Kyd, The Red
Heel Theatre, Philadelphia, 1993.
The Good Person of Szechwan, Bertolt Brecht, Theatre Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
Spring Awakening, Frank Wedekind, Theatre Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania, 1999.
Engaged, William S. Gilbert, Theatre Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2008.
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand, translated by Michael Hollinger, adapted by Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner, Theatre Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
The Octoroon, Dion Boucicault, Theatre Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania, 206.