Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School November 2019 Mini-Actors, Mega-Stages: Examining the Use of Theatre among Children and Youth in U.S. Evangelical Megachurches Carla Elisha Lahey Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory Commons, and the Other Theatre and Performance Studies Commons Recommended Citation Lahey, Carla Elisha, "Mini-Actors, Mega-Stages: Examining the Use of Theatre among Children and Youth in U.S. Evangelical Megachurches" (2019). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 5101. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/5101 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please
[email protected]. MINI-ACTORS, MEGA-STAGES: EXAMINING THE USE OF THEATRE AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN U.S. EVANGELICAL MEGACHURCHES A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The School of Theatre by Carla Elisha Lahey B.A., Samford University, 2000 M.S., Florida State University, 2012 December 2019 Acknowledgements For the past three years of this project, I have been dreaming of writing this page. Graduate school has not the easiest path, but many people walked along the road with me. I have looked forward to completing this project so I could thank them within the pages they helped to make possible.