About the Author

Richard Schechner is a pioneer of Performance Studies. A scholar, theatre director, editor, and playwright, he is University Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies.

He is the author of Public Domain (1969), Environmental Theater (1973), Over, Under and Around: Essays on Performance Theory (1976), The End of Humanism (1982), Between Theater and Anthropology (1985), Performance Theory (1988 Routledge), and The Future of Ritual (1993 Routledge). His books have been translated into Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Serbo-Croatian, German, Italian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian. He is the general editor of the Worlds of Performance series published by Routledge and the co-editor of the Enactments series, published by Seagull Books.