Contributors

Contributors SETH BAUMRIN, PhD CUNY Graduate Center, MFA Brooklyn College, served as Founding Artistic Director for Five Moon Theatre in New York and Massachusetts from 1982 to 1996. As a director Baumrin has worked in both professional and academic theatre in New York, Martha's Vineyard, London, and Arhus, Denmark. Currently he is on the faculty of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Rutgers University - Newark, teaching directing and theatre history. His dissertation, Eugenio Barba and the Stanislavski Legacy: An Ontology of the Actor, deals with the confluence of principles resident in Barba and Stanislavski's actor training methodologies. MARTHA GREENE EADS is a Lilly Fellow in Humanities and the Arts at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, where she teaches English and theatre . Eads completed her PhD in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2001. She focuses her research on the intersections of literature and theology and has published articles in Theology and Christianity and Literature. Her current book project, "Social Gospels: Class, Race, and . Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Biblical Drama," examines the ways in which modem adaptations of the medieval mystery play advocate secular repentance to effect social change. CARLOS JEREZ-FARRAN'S research and teaching interests include modern Spanish literature, especially contemporary theatre and poetry, the relation- .ship between the visual arts and literature, the avant-garde literary movements in Spain, gay and lesbian literature, and Spanish cinema. He has published several studies on the Generation of 'g8, Valle-Inclan, Garda Lorea, and contemporary Spanish theatre and prose. His first book deals with the relationship between Valle-Inchln and Expressionism. He has completed a book-length study on the theatre of Garefa Lorca, funded by a Research Grant from the Modern Drama, 42:2 (200t) 273 274 CONTRIBUTORS National Foundation for the Humanities. His recent article "Towards a Foucauldian Exegesis of Garcia Lorca's EI publico" has been published in The Modern Language Review. BAZ KERSHAW originally trained and worked as a design engineer before reading English and Philosophy at Manchester University. He has had extensive experience as a director and writer in radical theatre, including productions at the legendary Drury Lane Arts Lab in London. As co-director of Medium Fair Theatre Company, Exeter, he founded the first mobile rural community arts group and the first reminiscence theatre company, Fair Old Times. He is the author of The Politics ofPeiformance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention (Routledge, 1992) and The Radical in Peiformance: Between Brecht and Baudrillard (Routledge, 1999) and co-author ofEngineers ofthe Imagination: The Welfare State Handbook (Methuen, 1990). He holds higher degrees from the Universities of Hawaii and Exeter. He is currently Professor of Drama at the University of Bristol in England. ROBERT LIMA is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literatures at Penn State and Fellow Emeritus of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. He is a member of PEN, Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Espafiola, and Real Academia Espanola. His books include six poetry titles, The Theatre of Garda Lorca, Ram6n del Valle-Inc/an, Dos ensayos sabre teatro espanol de los veinte, Valle-Inc/an: The Theatre ofHis Life, Dark Prisms: Occultism in Hispanic Drama, Valle-Inc/tin: EI teatro de su vida, and translations of Valle-Inch'n's The Lamp of Marvels, Savage Acts: Four Plays and Barrenechea 's Borges the Labyrinth Maker. He has edited Borges and the Esoteric and The Alchemical Art ofLeonora Carrington. LYNN R. WILKINSON is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches Scandinavian, Comparative Literature, and Women's Studies. She is currently working on a book on women dramatists and modem drama. ...