Bio: Caitlin Marshall is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. Her manuscript, "Power in the Tongue: Black Women's Music Theatre Before 1900" traces the aesthetic and political innovations of American musical theatre to Black women singers in the antebellum period. She is a 2021 recipient of The American Society for Theatre Research’s Research Fellowship. Her writing is published in Theatre Survey, Performance Matters, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Postmodern Culture, Twentieth Century Music, and SoundingOut!  A scholarist and classically trained vocalist, she enjoys new play development, investigave and community based theater, and is a practitioner of performance based research.