Biography

John Fletcher is the Billy J. Harbin Associate Professor of Theatre at Louisiana State University. He studies social change performance, evangelical Christianity, online disinformation/misinformation, and the intersections of deception and performance. His work appears in journals such as Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, Theatre Survey, Text and Performance Quarterly, and Performance Matters as well as in anthologies such as Theatre, Performance, and Change (Palgrave 2018), Performing the Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics (Palgrave 2017), and Theatre Historiography: Critical Interventions (Michigan 2010). His monograph Preaching to Convert: Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age was published in 2013 by Michigan. From 2019-2023, he was co-editor and then editor of Theatre Topics. He has served as the Representative for several focus groups (Theory & Criticism, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Theatre) in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and he is a former Conference Planner and President of the Mid-America Theatre Conference. He has performed for Theatre Baton Rouge and Swine Palace Theatre in several productions, most recently The Book of Will in 2024. Currently he is head of the PhD Theatre program at LSU. He teaches courses in theatre history, theory, and literature at the undergraduate and graduate levels.