David A. Melendez
Assistant Professor of Theatre
Phone: (661) 654-2542
Office: Humanities Office Building Room 146
is located in the Music Building.
dmelendez8@csub.edu
Introduction to Theatre (Theatre 1109)
Script Analysis (Theatre 2100)
Antiquity to Rebirth (Theatre 3108)
Restoration to Experimentation (Theatre 3118)
Contemporary Latino/a Dramatic Literature (Theatre 3128)
Rehearsal & Performance (Theatre 2410/4410)
David A. Melendez is Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Literature in the Music and Theatre Department at CSUB. He is completing his Ph.D in Theatre Historiography from the University of Minnesota, where he studied representations of the California Mission past in literature, theatre, and performance. He has taught classes in Theatre and in Chicano and Latino Studies, was a graduate writing consultant at the UMN Center for Writing, and was research assistant in the early stages of the creation of the digital portal, Mexican American Art Since 1848 (MAAS1848). In Minneapolis, he worked with Penumbra Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, the Alliance of Latinx Minnesota Artists (ALMA), and played son jarocho with the MN Jaraneros. Recent projects include the devised play, Denim, UMN-Theatre Novi Most co-production (dramaturg, 2018), the performance project Ploys for Ensemble Glitz and Crisis Actors, Toot (performer, 2018-2019), the play Little Boy: A Nuclear Telenovela, The Brecht Circle (producer, 2019), the short film Men Among Men (actor, 2019), and publishing research in the Polish Theatre journal, Pamietnik Teatralny (2021). David is a US Navy veteran (submarines) and is excited to be back home in Kern county, where he graduated from Rosamond High School.
