Barbara Isenberg, author of "Tradition!", is an award winning journalist who has been writing and lecturing about theater for over three decades. She is the author of "Making It Big: The Diary of a Broadway Musical, State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work" and "Conversations with Frank Gehry. "Her work has appeared in "the LA Times", the "Wall Street Journal, Time, Esquire, The Huffington Post", and London's "Sunday Times". She lives in Los Angeles.