Academia & Writing

Academic Work

Academic Circus History Researcher and Speaker

• Main research area: Jewish circus families and artists in Germany Under National Socialism. Secondary research area: The Barbette Project, a work blending gender, history and performance (MA thesis available here)
• Stav's academic work has been presented at University of Sheffield (Circus and Beyond, 2018), Cirquon Prague (Circus and Its Others, 2018), Popular Culture Association (National Conference 2019; Winner of the Michael and Madonna Marsden Grant), Limmud Festival UK (2019), Leo Baeck Institute NYC (2020), and many Jewish institutions in the UK and USA.
• Stav's academic work has been published at Bandwagon - the journal of the Circus Historical Society, Bamah - the Israeli Performing Arts journal, and more.
• During Stav's academic studies she was awarded the Rose Biller Scholarship, the A. D. Felheim Scholarship, the Bernard Osher Foundation Scholarship and the Joan Howard Kersner Memorial Scholarship.

Freelance Writer and Journalist

• Select writing: "Legacies" for ContraProject and "Circus of Tomorrow?" for CircusTalk.
• Additional articles can be found on CircusTalk, The Circus Diaries. Circus Now, and The Forward.

Playwriting

• The Escape Act: A Holocaust Memoir - currently booking.
• The Dreamer and the Acrobat - produced Off-Off Broadway
• The Road to Ithaca - produced at Tmuna Theatre, Israel