Danielle Drees writes about bodies, labor, and politics in the performing arts. 

Her first book, Change the World Overnight: Sleep as Feminist Performance and Practice, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. Change the World Overnight reveals the unexpected role sleep has played in the past fifty years of feminist theater and performance art.

Danielle's scholarly writing appears in Signs, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Frontiers, Performance Research, Theatre Journal, and the forthcoming Palgrave textbook Teaching Writing in Theatre and Performance Studies. (Please email for copies of these articles and reviews.)

Danielle has produced public-facing scholarship for the Dead Ladies Project and the Map of Early Modern England. She is at work on a biography of the genderfluid 17th-century performer Mary Frith, better known as Moll Cutpurse.

Danielle received her PhD with distinction in Theatre and Performance from Columbia University and holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and Harvard College. She teaches Theater, Dance & Media at Harvard and is an affiliated faculty member of Emerson College. Danielle talks about art and books with learners of all ages at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and The Catherine Project. 

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