Biography and education
Dr. Byrne has a PhD in Theatre Studies from the City Univeristy of New York, Graduate Center, a MA in Theatre from Northwestern University, and BAs in Theatre and English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured grants
- Byrne, Kevin James. Travel Request 2023-2024, Texas State University, $500. (Submitted: 2023, Funded: 2023). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Dramaturg, New Play Festival.
September 2025.
Performances:
- New Play Festival.
- Byrne, K. J. (n.d.). Spiders, Clowns, Zulus: Black Comedy Baseball Teams of the Mid-Twentieth Century. In The Oxford Handbook of African American Humor Studies. Oxford University Press.
- Byrne, K. J. (2023). Performance Review: “Fat Ham and White Girl in Danger.” Theatre Journal.
- Byrne, K. J. (2022). Jukebox Musicals: An Interpretive History. London, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
- Dramaturg, Scenarios.
June 2021 - September 2021.
Performances:
- Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado.
Featured service activities
- Member
AI Committee--College of Fine Arts and Communications
- Undergraduate Advisor
Bobcat Performance Troupe
- Member
Area Head--Bachelor of Arts in Theatre
- Board Member
aTypical Community
- Reviewer / Referee
Black Theatre Review
- Editorial Review Board Member
Journal of American Drama and Theatre