Charles O'Malley

I am a writer and dramaturg, based in Oakland, CA.

 

I am the editor of Toward a Just Pedagogy of Performance: Historiography, Narrative, and Equity in Dramatic Practice (Routledge, 2023) and the author, with Scott W. Stern, of Shakespeare's Margaret: The Dramatic Life of a Warrior Queen (forthcoming, W. W. Norton, 2026).

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I am currently completing my third book, Theatre for a New Age: Queer Performance in 1970s San Francisco.

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I hold an MFA and a DFA from the Yale School of Drama and I work on literary projects for the California Arts Council. Find my bio and contact here.​​​​