About me

Wind Dell Woods (MFA, PhD) is a scholar, playwright, and educator.  He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. in Drama and Theatre—with emphases in Dramaturgy and Critical Theory—from the Joint Doctoral Program at U.C. Irvine and U.C. San Diego.

As a theatre artist his work explores the topics of race, gender, identity, community, and memory. His ten-minute play, The Black & White Minstrel Show, has been produced in Chicago, San Diego, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York City. His full-length plays include Jonny May’s Soul Kitchen, Skylark Dreams, A Bronzian Tale, Harold and I, Aaliyah in Underland, Roy the Hillian. 

Woods' research interests are in the fields of dramaturgy, dramatic theory, disaesthetics, narratology, psychoanalysis, blackness and performance, Afropessimism, and  Hip HopTheatre, philosophy aesthetics.

Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Puget Sound where he teaches courses in playwriting, dramaturgy, world theatre, acting, and Hip Hop philosophy. He also has the honor of serving on the Advisory Board for Black Light Arts Collective (https://www.blacklightartscollective.com/).