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Matthew McMahan

Assistant Director, Comedic Arts, Emerson College

Assistant Director, Comedic Arts, Emerson College Matthew McMahan is a performance scholar, dramaturg, and comedian. As the assistant director for the Center for Comedic Arts at Emerson College, he teaches the history of comedy. He has written on theatre, clowning, jazz, and comedy for Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, TDR, Theatre History Studies, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, The New England Theatre Journal, and The Texas Theatre Journal.