Richard Schechner

Richard Schechner, one of the founders of Performance Studies, is a performance theorist, theater director, author, editor of TDR, and University Professor at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Schechner combines his work in performance theory with innovative approaches to the broad spectrum of performance including theatre, play, ritual, dance, music, popular entertainments, sports, politics, performance in everyday life, etc. in order to understand performative behavior not just as an object of study, but also as an active artistic-intellectual practice. He founded The Performance Group and East Coast Artists.  His theatre productions include Dionysus in 69,  Commune, The Tooth of Crime,  Mother Courage and Her Children,  Seneca's Oedipus,  Faust/gastronome, Three Sisters, Hamlet, The Oresteia, YokastaS, Swimming to Spalding, and Imagining O.His books include Public Domain,  Environmental Theater, Performance Theory, The Future of Ritual, Between Theater and Anthropology, Performance Studies: An Introduction, and Performed Imaginaries. As of 2014, his books have been translated into 17 languages.

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