Guilherme Feitosa de Almeida, ABD, MM
- Senior Lecturer in Musical Theatre
Guilherme Feitosa de Almeida serves as Senior Lecturer in Musical Theatre at Baylor University in Waco, TX, USA and is the 2025 Recipient of the Robert A. Schanke Research Award, Theatre History Symposium of the Mid-America Theatre Conference. Guilherme is a doctoral candidate at Texas Tech (Lubbock, TX) pursuing a PhD in Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts (Musicology and Theatre) with graduate certificates in Music Cognition and Cross-Cultural Studies. His dissertation deploys semiographical and semiological methodologies as framed by Roland Barthes to investigate the many resistances to the mythologies of coloniality present in Music and Theatre.
Recent publications include "The Anti-War Voice of Buffy Sainte-Marie" (New Sound Intl Journal of Music 58, II/2021). Upcoming publications include “Musicality in Adrienne Kennedy’s ‘The Owl Answers’ and ‘She Talks to Beethoven’” (Theatre History Studies), “The Body as Site for Resistance – Between Abstraction and Mediation” (Embodied Dramaturgy: Liminal Movement in Dance and Theatre, in Routledge Focus on Dramaturgy Series), “Roland Barthes’s Semiology of Language: Model for Navigating the Technosphere Spatial Horizon” (Zeitschrift für Semiotik).
Recent workshops include "Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed" (Beteli Center, Tbilisi – Georgia), "Documentary Theatre - Interview to Radio Drama" (Southeastern Theatre Conference), and “Create, Compose, and Collaborate” (Benoit Symposium at Temple College). Recent productions include Goethe's "Faust" (Composer and Music Director, UT Dallas, with director Raphael Parry featuring a new English translation by Zsuzsanna Ozváth and Fred Turner, 2020), "Oscillating Realities" (Creation & Scenario in Music, 2021, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Switzerland), "durezieh und…" (Co-created with Eva Marlin, featured in Créatrices’ Fraumünsterhof 21, 2021, and FATart Fair 2022, Switzerland), and "Zwischen Tür und Engel" (Co-created with Eva Marlin, featured in the festival BRÜCKI 235 – Auführungsfenster, Kulturhaus Helferei – 2024, Switzerland).
