Christy Stanlake is a Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, where she directs the Academy’s theatre program. With research interests in Native American theatre and performance, dramaturgy, and literature, Stanlake authored Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective (2009) and co-authored Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre: Indigenous Spaces (2020) with Jaye Darby and Courtney Elkin Mohler. Stanlake has applied theories of Native theatre to her direction of JudyLee Oliva’s Te Ata and Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs; both productions toured to the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC.