As founding director of the Yale Repertory and American Repertory Theatres, Mr. Brustein has supervised well over two hundred productions, acting in eight and directing twelve including his own adaptations of The Father, Ghosts, The Changeling, and the trilogy of Pirandello works: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Right You Are (If You Think You Are), and Tonight We Improvise. He has written eleven adaptations for the A.R.T. (most recently Shlemiel the First, The Wild Duck, The Master Builder, Three Farces and a Funeral, and Enrico IV) and is the author of thirteen books on theatre and society, including Reimagining American Theate; The Theatre of Revolt; Making Scenes, a memoir of his Yale years when he was Dean of the Drama School; Who Needs Theatre, a collection of reviews and essays for which he received his second George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism; Dumbocracy in America; and Cultural Calisthenics. His latest book, The Siege of the Arts, will be released this year. Mr. Brustein also served for twenty years as Director of the Loeb Drama Center, and is Professor of English at Harvard and drama critic for The New Republic. He is a recipient of the George Polk Award in journalism, the Elliot Norton Award for professional excellence in Boston theatre, the New England Theatre Conference's 1985 Annual Award "for outstanding creative achievement in the American theatre," the 1995 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, the Pirandello medal, and a medal from the Egyptian Government for his contribution to world theatre. His Six Characters in Search of an Author won the Boston Theatre Award for Best Production of 1996. His play Demons which was broadcast on WGBH radio in 1993 had its stage world premiere as part of A.R.T. New Stages. His play Nobody Dies on Friday was given its world premiere in the same series and was presented at the Singapore Festival of Arts and the Pushkin Theatre in Moscow. His play Spring Forward, Fall Back, was performed in 2006 at Theatre J in Washington and at the Vineyard Playhouse. His new play, The English Channel, will be produced in 2007 in Boston and the Vineyard Playhouse. His short plays, Poker Face, Chekhov on Ice, Divestiture, Anchor Bimbo, Airport Hell, and Beacham's Last Poetry Reading were presented by the Boston Playwrights Theatre. Mr. Brustein is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was recently inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.

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