Mike Vanden Heuvel is Professor and past chair of Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, and a member of the Department of Classics and Near Eastern Studies, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mike is author of Performing Drama/Dramatizing Performance: Alternative Theatre and the Dramatic Text (Michigan) and editor-contributor of Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1970s (Bloomsbury). He is currently editing a two-volume series on American ensemble theatre companies 1970-present (forthcoming 2020-21, Bloomsbury). His published essays range across theatre criticism, pedagogy and theory, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary crossovers between theatre and science.
Teaching across a number of programs including ITS, Classics, and Integrated Liberal Studies, Mike has offered courses ranging from Alternative American Theatre, European and British Drama, Postdramatic Theatre, Theatre of the Avant-Garde, and Theatre and Science, among many others.