Publications
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Book Proposal
Margolis Method: Advancing Embodiment, Craft, and Care in Performance
Co-Editors and Authors: Elizabeth Parks, Kym Longhi
This is the first book to provide an overview of the origins, theory, and applications of Margolis Method. Twenty-three practitioners within theatre and across performance disciplines detail their use of Margolis Method in the classroom, performance space and beyond in five key areas: Vulnerability in Performance, Acting, Directing/Devising, Converging Methodologies, and Cross-Disciplinary Applications.
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Anticipated Publication by Routledge in 2028.
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Chapter included with Book Proposal
Evolving Stanislavski-based Acting through Margolis Method
This chapter examines the foundational connections between Margolis Method and Stanislavski’s System of acting as rooted in a shared deterministic, causal world view. This shared world view allows Margolis Method to elucidate Stanislavski’s concepts of intentions, tactics, and dramatic conflict through the devices of “Cause, Absorb and Effect, Transition” and “Stretching and Compressing the Space through Push and Pull.”
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Anticipated Publication by Routledge in 2028.
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"Voice, Body, and Performance for the Noh Actor:
A Keynote Conversation with Master Akira Matsui"
Parks, Elizabeth, Jonah Salz, and Akira Matsui.
Voice and Speech Review, vol.19, issue 2025, pp. 190-196.
This is an edited version of my interview with Akira Matsui as a Keynote Session during the 2024 VASTA Virtual Symposium. Special translation offered by Jonah Salz.
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“Shoe Story : An Icebreaker with a Sole”
Parks, Elizabeth.
Professors at Play ONLINE PlayBook, Play Story Press, 2025, pp. 49-50.
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This publication details an icebreaker developed while teaching Acting for Non-Majors at Appalachian State University. In the exercise, participants describe their shoes while discovering more about themselves and their classmates.
Solo International
Conference Presentations
(Selection)
1 /“Beautiful, Useful, True and Beyond: How do we keep change alive?”
Arts + Change Virtual Conference, 2026.
This three-part presentation examines the 2025 Appalachian State University theatre production of Beautiful, Useful, True and the questions which emerged after the performance.
2 / “Compassion, Empowerment, and Co-creation: Epistemic Justice in Margolis Method and Lessac Kinesensics”
Arts + Change Virtual Conference, 2025.
Presentation examined the ways Lessac Kinesensics and Margolis Method create compassionate, empowering, and epistemically just spaces.
3 / “Amplifying Intentionality: Margolis Method as Intervention in Beginning Acting Curricula”
3rd International Margolis Method Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2023.
Practical Uses of Margolis Method to support early college acting students’ engagement with intentions and tactics.
International
Conference Panel Organizer and Presenter
(Selection)
1 /“Discourse about Margolis Method Discourse”
Longhi, K., Parks, E.C.,
4th International Margolis Method Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, 2025.
Presentation with co-editor on our book project Margolis Method: A New Paradigm for Embodiment, Craft, and Care in Performance. Highlights from the book were shared along with victories, challenges, and lessons learned in bringing Margolis Method into a larger conversation within the field.
2 /“Neurodiversity, Kinesensics, and the Need for Compassionate Equity in Performer Training”
Bellaver, M., Parks, E.C., Pirret,
In/Corporate Voice, 2024 Voice and Speech Trainer’s Association Virtual Symposium, 2024.
Sharing of ongoing research in Lessac Kinesensics as a valuable tool for neurodivergent students and educators within the framework of Compassionate and Contemplative pedagogies.
3 /“R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Using Margolis Method to Center Care and Respect in Class and Rehearsal”
Barre, D., Beller, J., Busselle, K., Hanson, J, Myers, D., Parks, E., Parness, E.
Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Austin, TX. 2023.
A multi-disciplinary panel and workshop session discussing the uses of Margolis Method in ways that empower actors and honor their biopsychosocial wellbeing.
International
Conference Panel Participation
(Selection)
1 /“Failure, Play, and Creative Risk: Defining 'Discomfort' as a Tool for Growth”
Arp-Dunham, J., Chaffee, A., Ferry, N., Parks, E.C., Smith, R.S., Sturm, L., Thrash, S.
Association for Theatre in Higher Education Virtual Conference, 2025.
A roundtable session focused on addressing discomfort and failure for undergraduate acting students.
2 /“Building Resilience through Theatre: Showing Up for Yourself”
Bellaver, M., Parks, E.C., Pirret,
In/Corporate Voice, 2024 Voice and Speech Trainer’s Association Virtual Symposium, 2024.
Panel examining the specific ways in which the study and practice of theatre can build resilience in students. My contribution focused specifically on what it means to show up for yourself as a student, the ways in which I invite students to show up for themselves, and how they actually choose to show up for themselves.
3 /“Consent Across the Curriculum: Acting Classroom Best Practices”
Davidson, D., Hunter, L., Kane, C., Marty, J., Marty, P., Parks, E. C., Shawyer, S.,
Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Atlanta, GA. 2024.
Panel discussing the varied approaches and challenges to consent-based teaching of theatre history, design, performance, and dramatic writing.
4 /"Trauma-informed, Anti-racist and Compassionate Care Practices: A Directing Focus Group Workshop/roundtable.”
Bremer, S., Costa, A., Eckert, R., Fort, L., Jutting, J., Parks, E., Ré Arp-Dunham, J., Rikard, L.,
Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Austin, TX. 2023.
Eight theatre directors will bring exercises, suggestions, and ideas for creating Trauma-informed, Anti-racist and Compassionate Care Practices in our work.
For complete list of International, National, and Regional Conference Presentations, please see my Curriculum Vitae.