1 RICHARD SCHECHNER Richard Schechner Is University Professor
RICHARD SCHECHNER Richard Schechner is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He also teaches regularly at NYU's Abu Dhabi global campus. Schechner is a founders of the field of performance studies and the author of the widely used textbook, Performance Studies—An Introduction . His BA is from Cornell University (1956), MA the University of Iowa (1958), and PhD Tulane University (1962). He was the founding artistic director of The Performance Group and is artistic director of East Coast Artists. He is editor of TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies (the leading journal in the field). He is the editor of the Enactments book series published by Seagull Books and the Worlds of Performance Series published by Routledge. Schechner is the author of scores of articles and many books including: Public Domain , Environmental Theatre , The End of Humanism , Performance Theory , Theatres, Spaces, and Environments (co-author), The Engleburt Stories (co-author), Between Theatre and Anthropology , The Future of Ritual , Over, Under, and Around , Performance Studies: An Introduction, and Performed Imaginaries. Books of his writings have appeared in Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, French, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Parsi, Turkish, and Romanian. In 1967 in New York Schechner founded The Performance Group with whom he directed a number of productions, including Dionysus in 69 and Commune (both group devised) , Makbeth (devised by Schechner after Shakespeare), Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children , Seneca’s Oedipus , Sam Shepard’s The Tooth of Crime , Terry Curtis Fox’s Cops , David Gaard’s The Marilyn Project , and Jean Genet’s The Balcony .
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