Donald McManus
Theater Studies
Assistant Professor
Theater Emory
Resident Artist/Dramaturg
Rich Building, Room 225D
404-727-8523
Donald Cameron McManus was born and raised in Montréal, Quebec and has worked professionally as an actor, director, musician and clown in Canada, the U.S., Asia and Europe. His research and teaching interests include: popular entertainment, twentieth-century theatre, foreign plays in translation, dramaturgy, physical theatre, intercultural and multi-media performance. Dr. McManus completed a BA at The University of Toronto and was awarded the Donald Matheson Springer Fellowship to pursue graduate studies at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he completed his Doctorate in 1998. Before coming to Emory Dr. McManus taught Theatre and Film at Franklin & Marshall College where he directed several productions including King Lear, Of Thee I Sing, Once Five Years Pass, and The Lady from the Sea. His English translation of Man and Gentleman by Eduardo De Filippo was published in Forum Italicum in 2001. His play Cyrano on the Moon, an adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac’s prose works, was produced in collaboration with dance and theatre students from The University of Delhi and the Asian Academy of Film & Television in New Delhi, India in 2002. His book No Kidding! Clown as Protagonist in Twentieth-Century Theater was published by the University of Delaware Press in 2003 and was a Choice award winningOutstanding Academic Title in 2004. The World-Fixer, his English version of Thomas Bernhard's German-language play Der Weltverbesserer, was published by Ariadne Press in 2005.
