Contributors
- Contributors
Anna Augustynowicz has served as artistic director of Teatr Wspólczesny in Szczecin, Poland, since 1992. Among the many award-winning productions she has directed are Grzegorz Nawrocki’s Young Death, Witold Gombrowicz’s Ivona, Princess of Burgundia, Werner Schwab’s Volksvernichtung oder meine Leber ist sinnlos, and Juliusz Slowacki’s Balladyna.
Jessica Brantley is assistant professor of English at Yale University. She is the author of articles on Anglo-Saxon and Middle English manuscript illumination and is currently at work on a book-length study of the representation of dramatic events in the texts and images of a fifteenth-century manuscript.
Zbigniew Brzoza, artistic director of Teatr Studio in Warsaw since 1997, has staged many works, including Kafka’s Die Verwandlung, Sophocles’ Antigone, Witold Gombrowicz’s Premeditated Murder, Peter Handke’s The Hour We Knew Nothing of One Another, and Tankred Dorst’s Herr Paul.
Una Chaudhuri is professor of English and drama at New York University. She is the author of No Man’s Stage: A Semiotic Study of Jean Genet’s Plays and Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama. She is also the editor of Rachel’s Brain and Other Storms: The Performance Scripts of Rachel Rosenthal and coeditor of Land/Scape/Theater. Her articles and reviews have been published in Theatre Journal, Theater, Modern Drama, TDR, and the Village Voice.
Scott T. Cummings teaches and directs plays in the theater department of Boston College. His theater criticism and scholarship have appeared in a variety of publications.
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of twelve books, including Nickel and Dimed and Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a frequent contributor to Time, Harper’s, the New Republic, and the Nation.
Marsha Ginsberg is a scenic and costume designer whose work has appeared at the National Theater of Mannheim, the Long Beach Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, New York Theatre Workshop, Target Margin Theater, and the Mark Taper Forum, among others. She collaborates with directors Christopher Alden, David Herskovits, Michael Sexton, Robert Israel, and Roy Rallo and is a recipient of the NEA/TCG Designers Award.
Agnieszka Gli§ska is a graduate of the acting and directing programs at the State Theater School in Warsaw. Currently the artistic director of Warsaw’s Teatr Wspólczesny, her most important productions include Schnitzler’s Reigen, Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Horváth’s Tales from the Vienna Woods, and an adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal’s Bambini di Praga.
Adrien-Alice Hansel is a DFA candidate in the dramaturgy and dramatic criticism program at the Yale School of Drama and associate literary manager at the Yale Repertory Theatre. [End Page i]
Joan Holden was the principal playwright for the San Francisco Mime Troupe from 1970 to 2000. She has translated and adapted work by Dario Fo, Molière, Goldoni, and Jonson and collaborated with companies in Israel, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Nepal, winning an Obie for her play Seeing Double.
Amy Strahler Holzapfel is visiting assistant professor of theater at Dartmouth College. She is also a DFA candidate in the dramaturgy and dramatic criticism program at the Yale School of Drama.
Grzegorz Jarzyna was born in 1968, graduated from Krakow’s State Theater School in 1997, and has served as artistic director of Warsaw’s Teatr Rozmaitosci since 1998. His productions have toured to many international festivals and include Witkiewicz’s Tropical Madness, Brad Fraser’s Unidentified Human Remains, Aleksander Fredo’s Magnetism of the Heart, and original adaptations of Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus, Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, and Thomas Vinterberg’s film The Celebration.
Stanley Kauffmann, the film critic for the New Republic, taught at the Yale School of Drama for seventeen years. He now teaches in the graduate theater program at Hunter College.
Jaroslaw Kilian became artistic director of Teatr Polski in Warsaw in 1999. Among his many directing credits are productions of Juliusz Slowacki’s Balladyna, Stanislaw Grochowiak’s Beauty and the Beast, Leon Schiller’s Pastorale, and Jan Drda’s Hratky s črtem.
Nina Király is a theater critic and historian in the field of...
