2019 Topic: Hadestown Sweeps the Tonys: Could Aristotle Have Predicted It?
2017 Topic: Aristotle Takes Broadway: Classical Rhetoric in the Smash Hit Hamilton.
Biography:
Dana Yeaton is a playwright and teacher of dramatic writing and oratory. His full-length drama, Mad River Rising, received the Moss Hart Award, and his musical, Swing State, with composer Andy Mitton ’01, was a featured production at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. His most recent work for the stage is My Post-Traumatic Cruise Ship Cabaret, with music by The Grift.
Dana is also director of Oratory Now, a program training Middlebury students to speak, listen, and coach their peers in all forms of oral expression.