DAVID BALL won MLA's prize for literary translation in 1996 with Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology; other translations have appeared in many journals and anthologies; articles on translation have appeared in Translation Review, The Germanic Review, and elsewhere. His own poetry has appeared in journals ranging from Locus Solus and Atlantic Monthly to The World, Toothpaste, Bombay Gin... and in six small chapbooks.

JOEL BERKOWITZ is Corob Fellow in Yiddish at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and Hebrew Centre Lecturer in Yiddish at Oxford University. He is the author of Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming 2002) and editor of The Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches (Litmas Library, forthcoming 2002).

RHONDA BLAIR is a professor of Theatre in Southern Methodist University. A director, solo performer, and actor, she teaches critical studies and performance theories. Her translations of The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, and Hedda Gabler have been given a number of productions. Her writing appears in Method Acting Reconsidered, Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theater as if Gender and Race Mattered, Theatre Topics and elsewhere.

MAURA CHWASTYK is currently studying at Charles University in Prague and completeing her degree in linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh.

LYNNE CONNER is Assistant Professor in the Theatre Department at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches theatre and dance history, theory, and aesthetics. Her publications include Spreading the Gospel of the Modern Dance (1997) and articles in the International Dictionary of Modern Dance, Crucibles of Crisis, High Performance, Theatre Studies, The American Association of Museums Professional Practice Series and Pittsburgh History as well as critical commentary in many newspapers, newsletters and production programs.

JENNIFER RENEE DANBY is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center. She teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance at C.W. Post, Long Island University, and in the Department of Theatre Arts at SUNY, Stony Brook. Jennifer is also a director and an actor.

JEREMY DAUBER is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University, specializing in Yiddish literature. He is currently working on a book on the usage of Biblical and Rabbinic texts in early modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature.

DAVID ESCOFFERY is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Theatre Arts. He is in the process of completing his dissertation, which deals with Pirandello's links to the Italian Fascist Party.

KATHERINE B. FREE is a professor of Theatre Arts and Associate Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at Loyola Marymount University where she has taught theatre history and dramatic literature for over thirty years. She has also published articles on theatre in scholarly journals such as Theatre Research International and Theatre Journal as well as presented papers at the meeting of the American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR) and the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR). Her specialties include ancient Greek theatre and Indian folk theatre. She has directed productions of plays by Euripides, Racine, and Corneille among others. She was the dramaturg for the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's award-winning production of The Greeks in 1999. Her essay, "Thespis and Moses: the Jews and the Ancient Greek Theatre," appeared in Theatre and Holy Script, Sussex Academic Press in 1999.

PATRICIA GABORIK is a doctoral student in Theatre and Drama at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She received her BS from Northwestern University and her MA from UC, Santa Barbara. She is currently a fellow at the Center for German and European Studies, a University of Wisconsin and University of Minnesota Consortium, where she studies early twentieth-century Italian theatre and its intersections with Fascism.

KIKI GOUNARIDOU teaches Theatre History and Theory at Smith College. Her publications include Euripides and Alcestis: Speculations, Simulations and Stories of Love in the Athenian Culture (1998), Madame La Mort and Other Plays by Rachilde (1998), and Euripides. Hecuba: A Translation (1995), as well as several articles on Ancient Greek theatre, seventeenth-century French theatre, translation, and contemporary theory and performance.

WILLIAM GRANGE is a faculty member at the University of Nebraska, where he teaches theatre history, film, and performance courses while directing and acting with the Nebraska Repertory Theatre. He has authored several books, book chapters, scholarly essays, encyclopedia entries, and numerous letters to friends and family. He has also received several awards and fellowships, including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Nebraska Research Council, and most recently a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to teach and conduct research at the University of Cologne in Germany.

JOHN T. HAMILTON is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A translator of contemporary German drama and poetry, he has also published articles on archaic Greek lyrics and the Classical tradition. His forthcoming book is entitled Soliciting Darkness: On Pindaric Obscurity.

JOHN HELLWEG is Professor of Theatre at Smith College where he teaches courses in acting, directing, and dramatic literature. His courses have focused upon European and Asian theatre, intercultural practice, and on religion and theatre in Southeast Asia. He was instrumental in bringing performance training in Central Javanese dance and music to Smith. Recent directorial work includes two one-woman performances: Mother Maroon (Hart) which was presented in Cairo for the United Nations Conference on overpopulation and I Used to Be One Hot Number (Blair) which was last presented at the Big D Festival of the Unepected at the Dallas Theater Center.

ROXANA HUHULEA is a professional freelance translator of French and Romanian, based in New York City. She has a University Degree in French and English and Accreditation by the American Translators' Association. She is President Elect of the New York Circle of Translators.

THALIA PANDIRI, Editor-in-Chief of Metamorphoses, is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Smith College. She has published translations from Modern Greek and Medieval Latin.

NINA M. SCOTT is Professor of Spanish and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Spanish and Portugese at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a specialist on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and has published a translation of Autobiography and of the early novel, Sab, of the nineteenth century Cuban writer Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (University of Texas Press, 1993). She also published the bilingual anthology, Madres del Verbo/Mothers of the Word. Early Spanish American Women Writers (University of New Mexico Press, 1999) which covers works from 1556 to 1867.

ERIK WEISSENGRUBER completed his Ph.D. in Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of Minnesota's Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. His dissertation was entitled Utopia and Politics in the Theatre of Howard Barker. He teaches in the Department of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, Canada. He is currently preparing a study on the effect of censorship by the Lord Chamberlain on modern British drama and theatre.

KEVIN WETMORE teaches theatre at Denison University. His book on African intercultural theatre, African Adaptation of Greek Tragedy, is forthcoming from McFarland & Company.