Kania, Lucy

Overview "This thesis combines research and narrative fiction to investigate bias in educational theatre, as it pertains to the typecasting and exclusion of marginalized students. It presents indepth, original research on fatphobia in educational theatre and its impact on larger-bodied adolescent girls. This is followed by sample materials for an original Young Adult novel, Typecast, which tells the story of a fat teenage girl who teams up with other marginalized students to put on a production where...