A scholar-artist, Virginia Anderson is a Professor of Theater at Connecticut College where she teaches courses concerning theater and culture and directs for the main stage. Much of her scholarly work focuses on musical theater history as well as the on- and off-stage history of Broadway theatre and the AIDS epidemic. Representative publications include “Story Pirates Radio as a Document of America, 2020,” “Performing Interventions: The Politics and Theatre of China’s AIDS Crisis in the Early Twenty-First Century,” and “‘Something Bad [was] Happening’: Falsettos as an Historical Record of the AIDS Epidemic.” Her book, How Broadway Cares: A Theatrical History of the AIDS Epidemic, is under contract with Methuen Press. To learn more, see www.virginialanderson.com.