Shauna Vey has been researching and writing about child performers for over a decade. She is impressed with the talent of today’s juvenile performers and concerned with their welfare. An Equity-stage-manager-turned-scholar, Vey personally observed the world of child performers and their handlers on commercial film shoots and the stages of Broadway, opera, and ballet.
To conduct research on her current book, Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Work of the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Actors, Vey traveled to many of the same places where the Marsh Children performed - Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Albany, Chicago, New Orleans – but, regrettably not Australia and New Zealand. Fortunately, the superb online collections of the national libraries of Australia and New Zealand made research possible.
Vey’s work has appeared in Theatre Survey, Theatre History Studies, and Boyhood in America as well as the essay collections Entertaining Children: The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry (Arrighi & Emeljanow, eds.) and Querying Difference in Theatre History (Magelssen & Haugo, eds.)
Shauna Vey teaches theatre and communication classes at the City University of New York. She holds a Ph.D. in theatre and is a Professor at New York City College of Technology. Check out a course Vey developed for Brooklyn College on the history of the Professional Performing Child.
Questions? Contact Shauna HERE
To conduct research on her current book, Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Work of the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Actors, Vey traveled to many of the same places where the Marsh Children performed - Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Albany, Chicago, New Orleans – but, regrettably not Australia and New Zealand. Fortunately, the superb online collections of the national libraries of Australia and New Zealand made research possible.
Vey’s work has appeared in Theatre Survey, Theatre History Studies, and Boyhood in America as well as the essay collections Entertaining Children: The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry (Arrighi & Emeljanow, eds.) and Querying Difference in Theatre History (Magelssen & Haugo, eds.)
Shauna Vey teaches theatre and communication classes at the City University of New York. She holds a Ph.D. in theatre and is a Professor at New York City College of Technology. Check out a course Vey developed for Brooklyn College on the history of the Professional Performing Child.
Questions? Contact Shauna HERE