Bud Coleman is an Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and former Chair of the Department of Theatre & Dance. He currently holds the Roe Green Endowed Chair in theatre and serves A&S as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs.听 A former dancer with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Fort Worth Ballet, Kinesis, and Ballet Austin, he has directed/choreographed听Company,听Seussical,听A Grand Night for Singing,听Pippin,听Wonderful Town,听Songs in the Key of . . . Caffeine听(also librettist),听A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,听The Mikado,听Into the Woods,听Merrily We Roll Along,听Lysistrata,听Dames at Sea,听Hair,听Six Degrees of Separation, the opera听Being of Sound Mind, and numerous other productions.
Professor Coleman has a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Texas at Austin, and his publications have appeared in the听St. James Press Gay & Lesbian Almanac,听,听New York Native,听Theatre History Studies,听The Austin American-Statesman,听Theatre InSight, and听Choreography and Dance. With co-editor Judith Sebesta, they published听Women in American Musical Theatre: Essays on Lyricists, Writers, Arrangers, Choreographers, Designers, Producers, and Performance Artists, 2007. Professor Coleman鈥檚 writing includes analytical articles on the performance of gender, musical theatre, and American Theatre History.