David Krasner teaches theatre, drama, and performance at Yale University. He is the author of "Resistance, Parody and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre 1895-1910" (1997), and "A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance" (2002). He is also the editor of "A Companion to Twentieth-century American Drama" (Blackwell, 2004), co-editor of "Staging Philosophy: New Approaches to Theatre and Drama" (2006), and co-editor (with Rebecca Schneider) of the University of Michigan Press's series Theatre: Theory/Text/Performance.