Bio:

Maria Szasz holds degrees from the University of British Columbia, Emerson College, and UNM.  Her main interests include Comedy, Irish and American Drama, Musical Theatre, Stand-Up Comedy, and Theatre and Human Rights.  She is the author of Brian Friel and America (Glasnevin Press), “Interdisciplinary Teaching of Theatre and Human Rights in Honors” (in Honors in Practice), and “Lyra McKee (1990-2019): ‘How Uncomfortable Conversations Can Save Lives’” (in The Rose and Irish Identity).  She is currently working on a book about the Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theatre Company in New York City.