Contributors
- Contributors
Kate Bredeson is a DFA candidate in the dramaturgy and dramatic criticism program at the Yale School of Drama and a teaching fellow at Yale College.
Ilana M. Brownstein is a DFA candidate in the dramaturgy and dramatic criticism program at the Yale School of Drama and the literary manager and director of new play development at the Huntington Theatre.
Una Chaudhuri is the chair of the Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Katerina Clark is a professor of comparative literature and Slavic languages and literatures at Yale University. She is the author of The Soviet Novel: History As Ritual; Mikhail Bakhtin (with Michael Holquist), and Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution, 1913–1931. She is currently writing a cultural history of Moscow in the 1930s, Moscow, the Fourth Rome.
Gitta Honegger is a professor of English, German, and women’s studies at Arizona State University. Her recent publications include Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian (2001) and Frau Brecht: The Life and Work of Helene Weigel, forthcoming from Yale University Press.
Phillip Johnston has created original scores for film, theater, and dance (he won a “Bessie” for Keely Garfield’s Minor Repairs Necessary). Recent projects include an appearance at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival with his group The Microscopic Septet, music for Hilary Bell’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Ruysch, the BSC’s Comedy of Errors, and the upcoming premiere of his score for F. W. Murnau’s Faust at the New York Film Festival. Among his recent recordings are The Merry Frolics of Satan (Koch Jazz) and Music for Film (Tzadik).
Jonathan Kalb is the chair of the theater department at Hunter College and the editor of The Hunter On-Line Theater Review (www.hotreview.org). His new criticism collection, Presspassing, will be published in spring 2003 by Limelight Editions.
Jan Lauwers is the artistic director of Needcompany, a troupe of international actors and dancers based in Brussels. Known in the United States for his Obie award–winning Morning Song (1999) and King Lear (2001), Lauwers has directed seventeen productions with Needcompany, many in collaboration with theaters and dance companies throughout Europe. His first feature-length film, Goldfish Game, was released in 2001. Images of Affection, a performance piece inspired by the works of Andy Warhol, is currently on tour in Europe.
Framji Minwalla is an assistant professor of theater and dance and English at the George Washington University. He coedited, with Alisa Solomon, The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater. His essays have appeared in Theater, Theater Three, and American Theatre. He is currently at work on a book tentatively titled History, Performance, Politics: Queer Essays on Making and Teaching Theater. [End Page i]
Alice Rebecca Moore is a student in the dramaturgy and dramatic criticism program at the Yale School of Drama.
Jean Randich has been directing theater in the United States and abroad for the past fifteen years. Recent productions include Filloux’s Silence of God, Churchill’s Serious Money, Karen Hartman’s Girl Under Grain, Brecht’s He Who Says Yes; He Who Says No, the Jones and Larsen production J. P. Morgan Saves the Nation, and the Hwang and Filloux opera The Floating Box. Randich is a winner of the NEA/TCG Director Fellowship. She is currently writing the book and lyrics for Starry Messenger, a musical about Galileo, which will open in Germany in 2003.
Erika Rundle is the associate editor of Theater and the managing editor of The Yale Journal of Criticism. She is an artistic associate of Waxfactory and the Hourglass Group in New York.
Eric Salzman is one of the pioneers of new music-theater. His True Last Words of Dutch Schultz, with Valeria Vasilevski, is scheduled for its New York stage debut in a Center for Contemporary Opera production in spring 2003. Cassandra, with text by Eva Salzman, was written for the singer Kristen Nordervahl and is scheduled for performances in Vienna, Paris, and New York. Salzman is the author of Twentieth-Century Music (4th ed., 2002) and is currently working on a book entitled The New Music Theater.
James Sherman is a member of the Victory Garden Theater...
