Zachary Price
By Richard Chang
Combines Scholarship and Drama Professor
Zachary Price is fascinated with various modes of performance, from the proscenium stage to the street corner. He’s a new faculty member at UC Irvine, teaching in the Department of Drama. He started his position as assistant professor of doctoral studies in July. “I focus on Black drama, Black performance,” said Price, an interdisciplinary theater scholar and practitioner. “I’m also interested in quotidian forms of performance, like break dancing, MC-ing, carnival, 12
circus, performance in nightclubs, bars, restaurants, poetry cafes. “But I’m also interested in 18th and 19th century Japanese theater — how that translates into more contemporary forms of Japanese theater.” He added that he’s also exploring connections between Asian, Asian American and Black cultures and performance in a new book project that he hopes will be published by the end of 2021. Before UCI, Price was a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M
