Stephani Etheridge Woodson is an assistant professor of theatre at Arizona State University, where she teaches in the Theatre for Youth M.F.A. and Ph.D. programs. Dr. Woodson took her B.F.A and M.A. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. from Arizona State University. Her research and creative interests focus on the social construction of childhood through performance, representational ethics, children's media environments, and the group creation and performance of original work. She is the author of several articles for such journals as Youth Theatre Journal, Journal of American Culture, Stage of the Art, Research in Drama Education, and Bad Subjects.