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Sarah Taylor Ellis
507 Raymond Ave. #4, Santa Monica, CA 90405staylorellis@gmail.com 919-357-2904 www.staylorellis.com
Education
University of California at Los Angeles
Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Theaterand Performance Studies
Duke University, Durham, NC
B.A. in Theater Studies/Music and English,
 Summa cum laude
, May 2008
 Albemarle High School, Albemarle, NC
June 2004
 Academic Appointments
Teaching Associate
:
“Film and Music,” Fall 2011. “History of American Musical Theater,” Winter 2010and Winter 2012. “Deconstructing Theater,” Spring 2012.
 
Graduate Student Researcher
: Sue-Ellen Case, Fall 2009. Michael Hackett, Spring 2010.
 Assistant to the Center for Performance Studies
: Sue-Ellen Case, Spring 2010.
Co-chair, 2
nd
National Graduate Student Conference in Performance Studies
: Spring 2010.
 
Graduate Student Representative for ATHE’s Music Theater / Dance Group
: 2010
–
2011.
Publications and Presentations
 L.A. Weekly
:
Theater critic and arts blogger, March 2012
–
present.
 Stage & Cinema
:
Theater critic, March 2011
–
present.
 
 EDGE Los Angeles
: Theater critic, November 2010
–
September 2011.
“Let’s Do the Time Warp Again:
Performing Time, Genre, and Spectatorship
.”
CinemaStudies Graduate Conference: CUNY, March 2012.
 
“‘No Day But Today’: Queer Temporality in the American Musical.”
 ATHE: August 2011. IFTR:Munich, July 2010. Published in
 Studies in Musical Theatre
, Vol. 5, Issue 2.
“A Funny Thing Happened … to the Integrated Musical.”
Susan Porter Memorial Symposium,Classic Broadway and Those Who Built It: Boulder, Oct. 2010.
“Those Below Serving Those Up Above: The Carnivalesque Choreography of 
 SweeneyTodd 
.”
 ATHE: Los Angeles, Aug. 2010. Forthcoming publication in
Contemporary Musicals on Film, Television and the Internet 
, Eds. Aviva Dove-Viebahn and Kenneth Chan.
“Hypermarketing ‘Dancing Queen’.”
2
nd
National Graduate Student Conference in PerformanceStudies: UCLA, May 2010.
“Establishing (and Reestablishing) a Sense of Place: Musical Orientation in
The Sound of  Music
.”
Bruce Kirle Emerging Scholars Panel, ATHE: NYC, Aug. 2009. Published in
 Studies in Musical Theatre
, Vol. 3, Issue 3. Dec. 2009.
Dramaturgy 
CYCLOPS: A Rock Opera
Pulitzer Prize nominee. A raucous rock adaptation of Euripides’ satyr play 
Cyclops
.
Conceived by Psittacus Productions: Chas LiBretto, Louis Butelli, Jayson Landon Marcus, andBenjamin Sherman. Produced off-Broadway in the New York Musical Theater Festival, October 2011.
Musical Composition
Thank You, Mr. Falker 
 
 A family musical based on Patricia Pol
acco’s
 beloved
children’s book.
 
Book and lyrics by Andrew Bentz, Music by Sarah Taylor Ellis. Written for the Morgan-
 Wixson Theatre’s Youth Education/Entertainment Series. Workshopped in
 August 2010. World premiere in May 2011, part of the LA Festival of New American Musicals.
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