Mary Jo Lodge is an associate professor of Theater, specializing in Musical Theater, at Lafayette College, where she is also part of the Women's and Gender Studies Program faculty. She holds a Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University and a M.A. from Villanova University, both in Theater. She has an undergraduate Musical Theater degree from Catholic University. Prof. Lodge has directed and choreographed a wide range of professional, college and summer stock productions, including, most recently, She Kills Monsters at Lafayette. She has also published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on the musical and is currently writing and editing a volume on the musical Hamilton, to be published by Oxford University Press.