{"id":548,"date":"2019-08-01T16:06:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=548"},"modified":"2023-08-27T17:32:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T17:32:52","slug":"aaron-c-thomas","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/aaron-c-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron C. Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\"><strong>Aaron C. Thomas<\/strong> is an assistant professor in the School of Theatre at Florida State University. He is the author of <i>Love Is Love Is Love: Broadway Musicals and LGBTQ Politics, 2010-2020, Sondheim and Wheeler&#8217;s Sweeney Todd<\/i>, and the essay &#8220;Infelicities&#8221;.\u00a0His major research area is theatrical discourse surrounding sexuality and violence, and he writes primarily about images of violent masculinity in contemporary culture. As an antidote to writing about violence, he also writes extensively in the field of musical theatre studies, where his work, again, focuses on theatrical discourse surrounding sexuality, masculinity, and violence.<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron C. Thomas is a writer and director. He is an assistant professor in the School of Theatre at Florida State University. His first book, Sondheim and Wheeler\u2019s Sweeney Todd, was published in March 2018. His current book project, The Violate Man, interrogates images of male\/male sexual violence in U.S. American popular culture since the 1960s. He has published articles in American Theatre, Modern Drama, Theatre Survey, Theater, QED: a Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, and Theatre Topics, and he has additional work published in the Journal of Dramatic Theatre and Criticism, Theatre Journal, PAJ, New Theatre Quarterly, and Cultural Studies. Aaron is also the Literary Manager at Endstation Theatre Company in Central Virginia, where he works in new play development and dramaturgy.","protected":false},"featured_media":549,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}