Research Interests

• Theatre for Youth and Young Audiences
• Devised Theatre and Personal Narrative
• Applied Theatre
• Arts and Wellness

Select Publications

• Horn, Elizabeth B. Activated Script Analysis. Routledge. 2023.
• Horn, Elizabeth B., Tonya Hays. “United We Stand?: Devised Theatre for Social Change with Youth in a Tumultuous America.” The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Young People. ​2022.
• Horn, Elizabeth B. “Bodies at Play: Body Image and the Young Actor.” The Routledge Companion to Drama and Education. May 2022. 
• Horn, Elizabeth B., Brittany Caine, Maria Cary, and Emily Freeman. “Setting the Stage for Youth-Led Devised Theatre for Social Change: Reflective Collaborative Inquiry on ‘Act Out Justice.’” Teaching Artist Journal, 2022.
• Horn, Elizabeth B., Brittany Caine, Maria Cary, and Emily Freeman. "'Act Out Justice': Reflective collaborative inquire on theatre for social change youth programming." Reflective Practice, 2020. 
• Horn, Elizabeth B. "And so she plays her part: An autoethnographic exploration of body image, consent, and the young actor." Youth Theatre Journal, 2019. 
• Horn, Elizabeth B. "Stories in the air: Director self-disclosure in the theatre with youth rehearsal space." Research in Drama Education, 2019.
• Horn, Elizabeth B., Belinda C. Boyd, and Megan Sherod. "(Re)Discovering Story and Voice: The Adaptive Community Theatre Project." Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 2018. 
• Hill, Amanda, Jim Brown, Elizabeth B. Horn, Alayna Sterchele, Natalie Underberg-Goode, and Claudia Schippert. "Once In My LIFE: Behind the Scenes of an Intergenerational Theatre Project." Storytelling, Self, Society, 2019. 
• "New Visions, Voices, and Perspectives in Theatre for Young Audiences." HowlRound, 2018.
• "Not In Our Schools: Creating Self-Advocating Artists Starts in the Classroom." HowlRound, 2018. 
• "'Do You See Me?' Power and Visibility in Applied Theatre with Black Male Youth and the Police." Youth Theatre Journal, 31:2, 79-91. 2017.
• Horn, Elizabeth B. “New Thoughts for New Ages and Stages: Teaching Artistic and Educational Responsibility in the Devising Process.” Theatre Topics. 2016.

​Recognition

• Research Intensive Award, UCF, 2021.  
• The Johnny Saldaña Outstanding Professor of Theatre Education Award. American Alliance of Theatre and Education (AATE). 2021. 
• Tom Behm Theatre for Youth Award, Southeastern Theatre Conference, 2020. Regional juried award.