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  • Contributors

Rustom Bharucha, an independent writer, director, and dramaturg based in Calcutta, is the author of several books including The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking through Theatre in an Age of Globalization.

Adrienne Cooper’s work for the stage includes The Memoir of Gluckl of Hameln (with Jenny Romaine) and Ghetto Tango. Her recordings of wartime Yiddish cabaret include Partisans of Vilna and Hidden Histories: Songs of the Kovno Ghetto.

Richard Crane, the former resident dramatist at the Royal National Theatre and literary manager at the Royal Court Theatre, is a university fellow and lecturer, as well as a consultant for the new National Academy of Writing.

Nadine George-Graves is assistant professor of theater studies and African American studies at Yale University. Her book The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville is published by St. Martin’s Press.

Thomas Irmer is editor-in-chief of the monthly journal Theater der Zeit from Berlin.

Branislav Jakovljević is a theatrologist from the former Yugoslavia. He is a doctoral candidate in NYU’s Department of Performance Studies and a lecturer for the Drama Department, also at NYU.

Aleksandra Jovicevic is an associate professor at the University of Arts in Belgrade. Her column on Yugoslav politics appears in Süddeutsche Zeitung. She is a founder and member of the Association of Independent Writers (Forum pisaca) in Belgrade.

Ksenija Radulovic is a doctoral candidate in theatrology at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She is the author of several radio plays and screenplays, as well as a book about Yugoslav director Dejan Mijac. She received the 2000 Sterija Award for best critic.

Jonathan Shandell is Theater’s executive editor, in charge of business and marketing. He recently served as resident dramaturg for Soho Rep’s “Summer Camp” festival. He is a student in the Department of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School of Drama.

Ruth Juliet Wikler has studied the state of popular political theater in the Americas. Following a research assistantship at Arts International in New York, she attended the School of Contemporary Circus and Physical Performance in Bristol, U.K.

Franz Wille is an editor of Theater Heute.

Faynia Williams is an award-winning theater and opera director and a former chair of the Directors’ Guild of Great Britain. She is currently the copresident of the ITI Dramatic Theatre Committee and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Annabelle Winograd [Melzer], visiting professor in Dartmouth’s Drama Department, is currently completing a book on the theatricality of World War I, Performing War. She is the author of Dada and Surrealist Performance and coauthor of Shakespeare on Screen.

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