Cultural Supplement, August 2001

Marguerite Feitlowitz is the author of A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, a 1998 New York Times Notable Book and a Finalist for the PEN New England/L.L. Winship Prize. Her numerous awards include two Fulbrights to Argentina, a Harvard Faculty Research Grant, a Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship in Nonfiction, and a Marion and Jasper Whiting Award. From 1993-1999, she taught writing and literary translation at Harvard University; she was a Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University in May 1994. Her writings on art, literature, and human rights have appeared internationally. Among the books she has edited and translated are Information for Foreigners: Three Plays by Griselda Gambaro and Theatre Pieces: An Anthology by Liliane Atlan. Her theatre translations have been produced in London and New York, as well as in regional theatres. She is the Web Editor of Crimes of War.

James Leverett’s writings about theatre have appeared internationally. He is chair of the Department of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School of Drama.

Carey Perloff has been Artistic Director of the American Conservatory Theater since June 1992. Perloff's work at A.C.T. includes a major revival of The Threepenny Opera with Bebe Neuwirth, the American Premiere of Tom Stoppard’s Invention of Love, an acclaimed production of Euripides’ Hecuba, with Olympia Dukakis, the American Premiere of Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink, Harold Pinter's Old Times, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, and Shakespeare's The Tempest, which featured David Strathairn and the Kronos Quartet. In the 2001/2 season she will direct the American premiere of Harold Pinter’s Celebration, as well as the world premieres of Marc Blitzstein’s No For an Answer,h and David Lang and Mac Wellman’s Difficulty of Crossing a Field with the Kronos Quartet.

Perloff was artistic director of CSC Repertory (the Classic Stage Company) in New York from 1987-92. Under Perloff's leadership, CSC won the 1988 Obie Award for artistic excellence, as well as numerous Obies for acting, design, and direction.

Joanne Pottlitzer, a freelance playwright and theater director, has produced many Latin American plays in New York and is the winner of two Obie Awards. Her translations of plays have been produced in New York and throughout the country, including Daedalus in the Belly of the Beast, by Marco Antonio de la Parra; Nelson 2 Rodrigues, by Antunes Filho; The Toothbrush , by Jorge Díaz; La Chunga, by Mario Vargas Llosa; and Mythweavers, by Arturo Uslar Pietri. Teaching credits include the Yale University School of Drama, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, the Theatre School at Ohio University, and CCNY's Hunter and Brooklyn Colleges. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Drama Review, American Theatre and Yale University's Theater magazine. She is currently working on a video documentary about two generations of Chilean artists, from 1973 to the present, and writing a book, Symbols of Resistance: A Chilean Legacy, about the influence of artists on the political process.