Contributors

Contributors PATRICIA L. BADIR is Assistanl Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is presently writing a book on post-Reformation representations of Mary Magdalen. Her artiCles have been published in Theatre Journal, Journal of Medieval and Early Modem Studies, Theatre Survey, and Exemplaria . ALBERT BERMEL'S published translations include more than 40 French and Italian plays. His books of criticism deal with modem theatre, Moliere, farce from Aristophanes to Woody Allen, and Shakespeare at the Moment: Playing the Comedies (Heinemann, 2000). He has written 180 articles and reviews on theatre, film, poJitics, and literature. Bermel, a professor emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, has also taught at Yale, Columbia , and Juilliard. He received a George Jean Nathan award for criticism and a Guggenheim Fellowship for playwriting. He has several plays and translations now in production. RONALD BRYDEN is Literary Advisor to the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-theLake , Ontario. From 1981 to 1991 he was Director of the Graduate Centre for Study of Dranna at the University of Toronto. IAN CARRUTHERS teaches Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University in Melbourne , Australia. He is a co-editor, with Minami Ryuta and John Gillies, of Petforming Shakespeare in Japan (Cambridge UP, 2001). With Takahashi Yasunari, he is co-authoring The Theatre ofSuzuki Tadashi for the Directors in Perspective series (Cambridge UP, forthcoming). DAN FRIEDMAN is the dramaturg at the Castillo Theatre in New York City. He is co-editor, with Bruce McConachie, of Tileatrefor Working Class Audiences Modern Drama. 43:2 (Summer 2000) 323 CONTRIBUTORS in the United States, t830-t980 (Greenwood Press, 1985) and editor of Still on the Corner and Other Postmodern Political Plays by Fred Newman (Castillo, 1998). His recent theatre-related publication include "Twenty-two Weeks of Pointless Conversation," a discussion of the Castillo Theatre's approach to performance, in P"jorming Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind, edited by Lois Holzman (Routledge, 1999) and "Performance of a Lifetime: Interactive Growth Theatre and the Development of Performance in Everyday Life" (Theatre InSight, 10:2, Fall 1999). He is also the author or co-author of fourteen plays, three of which have been produced at the Castillo Theatre; the most recent, Crown Heights, co-authored with Fred Newman and Jacqueline Salit, opened Castillo's t998/99 season. GRALEY HERREN is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, where he teaches modern drama and modern British and Irish literature . He has published articles on Samuel Beckett n the Journal ofBeckell Studies, Samuel Beckett TodaylAujourd' hui, lOl/mal of Dramatic Theory & Criticism, and Nua: Swdies in Contemporary Irish Writing. He is currently completing a book-length study of BeckeU's plays for television. CHRISTOPH ER INNES is Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Killam Fellow. The author of ten books on modern drama - most recently, Avant Garde Theatre, t892-t992, Twentieth-Century British alld American Theatre, A Critical Guide to Archives, and A Sourcebook Oil Naturalist Theatre - he also edits the Directors in Perspective, Canadian Dramatist, and Lives of the Theatre series, as well as being on the editorial board of The Cambridge GI/ide to Theatre and a contributor to The Oxford lIIustrated History ofTheatre. PRAPASSAREE KRAMER was born in Bangkok, Thailand, graduated from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), and holds an MA in English from Chulalongkorn , an MA in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin Madison , and a PhD in English Literature from Purdue University. Her previous publications include "No Man's Land as Dream Play" in Cycnos 14:1 (1997) and "Stoppard's Arcadia: Research, Time, Loss" (co-written with Jeffrey Kramer) in Modern Drama 40:1 (1997), for which the authors received the Modern Drama essay prize for best submission by a new scholar. GABRIELLE KURLANDER is the producing director of the Castillo Theatre. She has been a member of the Castillo acting ensemble since 1986. Before joining Castillo, she acted in many venues, including a six-month stint with the national touring company of Biloxi Blues. In recent years, she has directed most of the musicals produced at Castillo, including the 1997 production of Carmen's Place...