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  • Contributors

Buzz Alexander, a professor of English at the University of Michigan, founded the Prison Creative Arts Project. He is the author of Film on the Left: American Documentary Film, 1931–1942 and a newly finished manuscript on community-based theater, More Verses to Write: or, Lost and Presumed Dead.

Caron Atlas has worked to further the connection between art and social change for more than two decades. She was the founding director of the American Festival Project and currently is a consultant working with organizations ranging from community-based cultural centers to artist networks to foundations in the U.S. and internationally.

Peter C. Brosius is the artistic director of the Children’s Theatre Company. He has developed and directed new work at theaters across the country, including the Mark Taper Forum, Pan Asian Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, and South Coast Rep.

Linda Frye Burnham is a writer who founded High Performance magazine and cofounded the 18th Street Arts Complex, Highways Performance Space, Art in the Public Interest, and the Community Arts Network. She lives in Saxapahaw, North Carolina.

Dudley Cocke, writer, stage director, teacher, and producer, is the director of Roadside Theater, a part of Appalshop. The twenty-five-year-old Appalachian ensemble company has toured its original plays in forty-three states and overseas, and has performed in London, New York, and Los Angeles among others. Cocke often speaks and writes about rural culture.

Jan Cohen-Cruz is a writer/practitioner of activist and community-based performance, and associate professor in New York University’s drama department. She coedited Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism and edited Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology. She is on the faculty advisory board of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts’ Center for Art and Public Policy.

Archon Fung is an assistant professor of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His teaching and research focus on the uses of civic engagement and participation in improving the public sector.

Arlene Goldbard is a writer and consultant based in Seattle. Contact her at goldbard@oz.net. [End Page i]

Sharon Green recently completed her dissertation on postcolonial popular theater and is currently a visiting assistant professor of theater at Davidson College in North Carolina.

Lani Guinier became the first black woman tenured law professor at Harvard Law School in July 1998. Her books include The Tyranny of the Majority; Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law Schools and Institutional Change; and Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice. She is coauthor of The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Power, Transforming Democracy (forthcoming February 2002).

Holly Hughes, according to former National Endowment for the Arts chairman John Frohnmayer, “is a lesbian and her work is heavily of that genre.” Her most recent work is Preaching to the Perverted, directed by Lois Weaver, and she is the author of Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler and coeditor of O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance.

Tameron Josbeck is an engineering student at the University of Massachusetts and an activist for social justice; he is one of the Puppetistas who was arrested in Philadelphia during the Republican National Convention in August 2000. He is Judith Malina’s grandson.

Melanie Joseph is the founder and artistic director of New York’s Foundry Theatre. In addition to producing and directing, she has conducted theater residencies at Princeton University, Kenyatta University, Nyere University (Tanzania), Makere University (Uganda), and the Tibetan Institute for the Performing Arts.

Jonathan kalb is chair of the theater department at Hunter College. A revised edition of his book, The Theater of Heiner Müller, will be published in paperback by Limelight Editions in fall 2001.

Dorinne Kondo is professor of anthropology and director of Asian American studies at the University of Southern California. She was a dramaturg for the world premiere of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 and for the film Twilight. Her first play, (Dis)graceful(l) Conduct, recently won Mixed Blood Theatre’s national comedy playwriting award.

Tony Kushner’s most recent play, Homebody/Kabul, will open in New York in fall 2001, and a musical, Caroline, or Change...

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