Richard Schechner is Editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies and University Professor Emeritus, New York University. His books include Environmental Theater, Performance Theory, Between Theater and Anthropology, Performed Imaginaries, Performance Studies: An Introduction, and Schechner Plays. His writing has been translated into 22 languages. He has directed performances, led workshops, taught, and lectured on every continent but Antarctica. Among his theatre productions are Dionysus in 69 (from Euripides’ The Bacchae), Sam Shepard’s The Tooth of Crime, Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, Jean Genet’s The Maids and The Balcony, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, his own adaptations Makbeth and Richard’s Lear, and the immersive-devised Commune and Imagining O. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Schechner has been awarded numerous fellowships, awards, and honors, including a Guggenheim, two Fulbrights, Lifetime Career Achievement Award American Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Lifetime Achievement Award Performance Studies International, Leverhulme Trust Fellowship UK, Erasmus Mundo Fellowship European Union, and four honorary doctorates.
