An award-winning professor of theater studies and Slavic and Eurasian studies, Jody McAuliffe is a director, writer, and translator who has directed new plays at theaters across the United States, including the Mark Taper Forum, where she was a National Endowment for the Arts directing fellow. She is the author of two earlier works, My Lovely Suicides and Plays, Movies, and Critics, and the coauthor with Frank Lentricchia of Crimes of Art and Terror.

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