Lurana Donnels O’Malley

Lurana Donnels O’Malley serves as Director of Graduate Studies in Theatre at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and has taught Euro-American theatre history, research, and directing there since 1991. O’Malley is the author of The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia (2006). O’Malley has also published on topics related to American pageant drama. Her forthcoming book Black Activists Write Wheatley and Washington: Terrell, Du Bois, and the Drama of the 1932 Bicentennial (Routledge, July 2025) treats the plays and pageants of the 1932 George Washington Bicentennial, with a focus on Mary Church Terrell.