Tom Adler

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights - Guides to Contemporary Drama Tom Adler

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION1. EDWARD ALBEE(Tom Adler, Purdue, USA)2. MARlA IRENE FORNES(Scott Cummings, Boston College, USA)3. RICHARD GREENBERG(Jochen Achilles, Wurzburg, Germany)4. JOHN GUARE(Ken Urban, Harvard, USA)5. DAVID-HENRY HWANG(Russell Vandenbroucke, Louisville, USA)6. ADRIENNE KENNEDY(Klaus Benesch, LMU Munich, Germany)7. TONY KUSHNER (James Fisher, North Carolina, USA)8. NEIL LABUTE (Christopher Innes, Toronto, Canada)9. DAVID MAMET(Toby Zinman, Philadelphia, USA)10. DONALD MARGULIES(Kerstin Schmidt, Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, Germany)11. TERRENCE MCNALLY(Peter Paul Schnierer, Heidelberg, Germany)12. ARTHUR MILLER (post - 1970)(Susan Abbotson, Rhode Island, USA)13. MARSHA NORMAN (Annalisa Brugnoli, University of Venice, Italy)14. SUZAN-LORI PARKS(Ilka Saal, Erfurt, Germany)15. SARAH RUHL(Deborah Geis, DePauw, USA)16. JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY(Annette J. Saddik, CUNY, USA)17. WALLACE SHAWN (Martin Middeke, Augsburg, Germany)18. SAM SHEPARD(Katherine Weiss, East Tennessee State University, USA)19. CHRISTOPHER SHINN(Stephen Bottoms, University of Manchester, UK)20. LUIS VALDEZ(Jorge Herta, UCSD, USA)21. PAULA VOGEL(Joanna Mansbridge, Nova Scotia, Canada)22. NAOMI WALLACE(Pia Wiegmink, Mainz, Germany)23. WENDY WASSERSTEIN(Frazer Lively, Weseleyan, USA)24. AUGUST WILSON(Sandra G. Shannon, Howard, USA)25. WILLIAM S. YELLOW ROBE(Birgit Daewes, Mainz, Germany) NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORSINDEXBiographical Note: Martin Middeke is Professor and Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Peter Paul Schnierer is Professor and Chair of English Literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Christopher Innes is a Professor of English at York University, Canada, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture. Matthew Roudane is Professor and Chair of English at Georgia State University, USA. Publisher Marketing: Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, this book surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality, and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. The authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail.

Contributor Bio:  Adler, Tom Tom Adler is a publisher, art director, and lifelong surfer from Santa Barbara. He has spent the past three decades living on the beaches at Rincon Point and Serena Point. In addition to his work with mainstream fashion clients, photo galleries, and film projects, Adler has devoted much passion to capturing the mood and significant moments of the surfing experience. Contributor Bio:  Zinman, Toby Susan C. W. Abbotson is Assistant Professor of Dramatic Literature at Rhode Island College, USA. Contributor Bio:  Saal, Ilka Ilka Saal teaches Drama & Theater as well as American Studies at the University of Richmond, VA. She is the author of "Dramatizing the Disease: Responses to AIDS on the US American Stage" as well as of a number of essays on American Drama. Contributor Bio:  Saddik, Annette J Annette J. Saddik is Professor of English and Theatre at the City University of New York (CUNY), where she teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center and New York City College of Technology. She is the author of Contemporary American Drama (2007) and The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays (1999), the first exploration of Williams' post-1961 reputation. She is also the editor of Tennessee Williams: The Traveling Companion and Other Plays (2008) and has published essays on various playwrights in journals such as Modern Drama, The Drama Review (TDR), and South Atlantic Review, as well as in numerous critical anthologies and encyclopedias. She serves on the editorial boards of Theatre Topics, the Tennessee Williams Annual Review, and the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, and recently received the 2015 McAndless Distinguished Professor Award to serve as scholar-in-residence at Eastern Michigan University. Contributor Bio:  Weiss, Katherine Professor Erin Hurley is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of English, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.; Dr Patrick Lonergan is a lecturer in English at National University of Ireland, Galway. He writes about theatre for "The Irish Times" and "Irish Theatre Magazine". His first book, "Theatre and Globalization", was awarded the 2008 Theatre Book Prize. He has authored two Student Editions of plays by Martin McDonagh and is editor of "The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays".; Katherine Weiss is an Associate Professor of English and Modern Drama at East Tennessee State University. She and Sean Kennedy are the editors of Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive published in 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan. Additionally, she included the notes and commentary to Methuen Drama's student edition of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth (2010) and has published several articles on Samuel Beckett and Sam Shepard, among other modern and contemporary playwrights.