Bud Coleman is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance. A former dancer with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Fort Worth Ballet, Kinesis, and Ballet Austin, he has directed/choreographed Seussical, A Grand Night for Singing, Pippin, Wonderful Town, Songs in the Key of . . . Caffeine (also librettist), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Mikado, Into the Woods, Merrily We Roll Along, Lysistrata, Dames at Sea, Hair, Six Degrees of Separation, the opera 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 St. James Press Gay & Lesbian Almanac, qlbtq.com, New York Native, Theatre History Studies, The Austin American-Statesman, Theatre InSight, and Choreography and Dance. With co-editor Judith Sebesta, they published Women in American Musical Theatre: Essays on Lyricists, Writers, Arrangers, Choreographers, Designers, Producers, and Performance Artists, 2007. In addition to being a playwright, Professor Coleman’s writing includes analytical articles on the performance of gender, musical theatre, and American Theatre History.