The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights

INTRODUCTION 1. EDWARD ALBEE (Tom Adler, Purdue, USA) 2. MARlA IRENE FORNÉS (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 Eichstätt-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 CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

Middeke Martin (born 24 April 1963 in Paderborn) is a German literary scholar and Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Middeke Martin (born 24 April 1963 in Paderborn) is a German literary scholar and Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Dr Peter Paul Schnierer is the 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. He is the author of many books on modern drama and theatre history. Dr Matthew Roudané is Professor of English and Chair at Georgia State University, USA. Dr Peter Paul Schnierer is the Chair of English Literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Scott T. Cummings is a theatre scholar and critic who has directed plays and taught courses in playwriting and dramatic literature in the Theatre Department of Boston College for more than twenty years. His teaching, research, and professional interests center on contemporary American theatre, new play dramaturgy, and devised work. His major publications include Remaking American Theater: Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Maria Irene Fornes (Routledge, 2012), and The Theatre of Naomi Wallace: Embodied Dialogues (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), a collection of essays and commentary co-edited with Erica Stevens Abbitt. Prior to Boston College, Scott held teaching positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pittsburgh. Ken Urban is a playwright based in New York City. Christopher Innes is a Professor of English at York University, Canada, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture. He is the author of many books on modern drama and theatre history. JILL DOLAN is Professor of English and Theatre at Princeton University, USA, where she is also

An extensive survey of twenty-five prominent American playwrights whose careers span the last fifty years ... Readers might employ this guide as an introduction to a playwright's career and oeuvre, as supplemental reading to one of the playwright's plays, or as a starting point for further research.. This guide provides useful and productive analysis of the playwrights. Amy Guenther Theatre Topics