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JEFFREY ERIC JENKINS is Director of Theatre Studies at New York University, where he has taught dramatic literature, theatre history, and criticism since 1998. He also taught directing at the University of Washington and graduate dramaturgy at SUNY-Stony Brook. Jenkins has directed more than two dozen productions in theatres across the United States, and served on the management team of Peter Brook's acclaimed productions of The Mahabharata and The Cherry Orchard at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. A former chairman of the American Theatre Critics Association, Jenkins has published articles in major newspapers, reference books and scholarly journals. He took degrees in research and studio concentrations from the University of East Anglia (UK), Carnegie Mellon University, and San Francisco State University. His books include Under the Copper Beech: Conversations With American Theater Critics, eight volumes of The Best Plays Theater Yearbook series, and chapters in recent titles such as Interrogating America Through Theatre and Performance, Angels in American Theatre: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy, Shakespearean Criticism, and the forthcoming Intertextual Exchanges. Jenkins serves on the board of trustees of the American Theatre Wing, on the executive committee of the Theater Hall of Fame, and as a dramaturgical consultant to productions in development.
Bio as of January, 2011.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Working in the Theatre (video)
From New Dramatists - December, 2007 - Watch now.
Staging The Classics - November, 2005 - Watch now.
Interpreting Tennessee Williams - April, 2005 - Watch now.
Playwrights - October, 2004 - Watch now.
Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 2003 - Watch now.
Design - April, 2003 - Watch now.
Design - September, 2002 - Watch now.
Playwright and Director - April, 2002 - Watch now.
Member of the American Theatre Wing Board of Trustees
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