Sharrell D Luckett

Sharrell D. Luckett, PhD, is a Charles P. Taft Distinguished Professor of Drama and Performance Studies and the Director of the Helen Weinberger Center for Drama & Playwriting. You can learn more about her dynamic career at www.sdluckett.com and www.BlackActingMethods.com.

Ph.D.: University of Missouri-Columbia (Theatre and Performance Studies)

M.Ed.: Kennesaw State University Atlanta, GA, (Educational Leadership)

Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies: Georgia State University Atlanta, GA, (Theatre, Education, Entertainment Law & Business)

Certification: Columbus State University (K-12 Theatre Education Certification)

Directing, Acting Theory & Methodologies, Black Theatre, Fat Studies, Performance Studies, The Luckett Paradigm, Autoethnography, Black Feminist Theory, Playwriting, Devising

Grant: #R40751 Investigators:Luckett, Sharrell; Yockey, Denton 07-01-2019 -12-31-2020 UC's AHSS Faculty Research Summer Stipend Program International Black Acting Methods Studio Symposium Role:PI $10,000.00 Active Level:Internal UC

Grant: #R40763 Investigators:Luckett, Sharrell 04-01-2021 -04-30-2022 UC's AHSS Empirical research via the Black Acting Methods Society Role:PI $10,000.00 Active Level:Internal UC

Peer Reviewed Publications

Sharrell D. Luckett  (2017). Staging Race. Youth Theatre Journal, 31 (2)

Sharrell D. Luckett  (2017). On Process in Soweto, Soweto, Soweto: A Township is Calling. Continuum: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre, and Performance, 4 (2)

Sharrell D. Luckett, K. Dunn, D. Sicre  (2020). Training Theatre Students of Colour in the United States. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 11 (3) , 274

Published Books

Sharrell D. Luckett w/ Tia M. Shaffer (2017). Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches. (Co-Editor)

Sharrell D. Luckett (2018). YoungGiftedandFat: An Autoethnography of Size, Sexuality, and Privilege. New York, Routledge Publishing. (Author)

Sharrell Luckett (2020). African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity. Bucknell/Rutgers University Press. (Editor)

Sharrell Luckett, David Roman, Isaiah Wooden (2020). Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theater, Performance, and Collaboration. Northwestern University Press. (Co-Editor)

Sharrell D. Luckett w/ Tia M. Shaffer (2025). Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches, 2nd Edition. Routledge. (Co-Editor)

Book Chapter

Sharrell D. Luckett (2019). "Black Acting Methods: Mapping the Movement". In Routledge Companion to African American Theatre & Performance. New York, Routledge Publishing (Author)

Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer (2017). "The Hendricks Method". In Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches. (pp. 19). New York, Routledge Publishing (Co-Author)

Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer (2017). Introduction: The Affirmation. In Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches. (pp. 1). New York, Routledge Publishing (Co-Author)

Sharrell D. Luckett (2016). "The Journey to YoungGiftedandFat". In Running the Long Race in Gifted Education. (pp. 271). IGET-Network Publishing (Author)

Book of Poems

Sharrell D. Luckett Transweight: Poems from an Undercover Fat Girl .Transweight: Poems from an Undercover Fat Girl .

Lecture

Sharrell Luckett (10-2019. ) Black Acting Methods: The Field and the Text .University of NC, Charlotte. Other Institution.

Charles P. Taft Distinguished Professor of Drama & Performance Studies, 2023-Present

Distinguished Keynote - 75th Anniversary SETC Convention, 2024

Fellow- artEquity BIPOC Leadership Circle, 2024