Performing Medieval Theatre: A Conversation with Kyle Thomas
Episode 169
A welcome return for Kyle Thomas to the podcast where we discussed Kyle’s work on preparing three of the York Cycle plays for performance this summer in Toronto. As you will hear Kule is part of a team that are going to perform the fifty-play cycle on the 7th June 2025 in the grounds of the University of Toronto.
Link to the York Cycle Plays performed at Toronto University in June 2025: https://www.yorkplays.ca
Link to Kyle’s projects:
Ensemble Member: Stage Left Theatre
Reviewer for ChicagoOnStage.com
Chief Editor of ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama
Featured Expert on Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (Discovery Channel)
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Kyle A Thomas
Kyle A. Thomas is a theatre historian, a professional actor and director, as well as a theatre critic. He recently left his position at Missouri State University after re-invigorating the B.A. Theatre Program and now serves as Adjunct Professor of Theatre at North Park University in Chicago, where he’s also a resident Ensemble member of Stage Left Theatre. A specialist in early medieval theatre and drama, Kyle’s publications reveal how performance shaped social and cultural practices in premodern Europe. His direction of medieval plays includes the Play of Adam at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters (N.Y.C.) in 2016. He is also the Chief Editor of the journal, ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama. You can watch him on screen as part of the Discovery Channel’s Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America or as The Theatre History Professor on YouTube.