1. Rabih Mroué was born in Beirut in 1967. He is an actor, director, playwright, and a Contributing Editor of TDR and the Lebanese quarterly Kalamon. He is one of the founders and sits on the executive board of the Beirut Art Center association (BAC). In 1990 he began putting on his own plays, performances, and videos. Grant awards include: Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, 2010; The Spalding Gray Award, P.S.122, New York, 2010; and the Prince Claus Award, Amsterdam, 2011. His works include Photo...
2. Carol Martin is Professor of Drama at NYU. Her books include Theatre of the Real (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2012), The Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2010); Brecht Sourcebook, coedited with Henry Bial (Routledge, 2000); A Sourcebook of Feminist Theatre: On and Beyond the Stage (Routledge, 1996); and Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture of the 1920s and 1930s (University of Mississippi Press, 1994). She has been awarded a Visiting Professor Fellowship at Tokyo University,...