David Krasner teaches theatre, drama, and performance at Yale University. His many publications include "American Drama, 1945-2000" (Blackwell, 2006), "A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927" (2002), "Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910" (1997), editor of "A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama" (Blackwell, 2005), and coeditor of "Staging Philosophy: New Approaches to Theatre and Performance" (2006). He has twice received the Errol Hill award from the American Society of...