Theater Arts Faculty Directory
History and Criticism
Eileen Blumenthal
Theater history and criticism
Eileen Blumenthal has a Ph.D. in history of the theater
from Yale and M.A. and B.A. degrees in English and American literature from
Brown. Her specialties include contemporary experimental theater and traditional
Asian theater and theater. She is the author of a book on Joseph Chaikin,
numerous theater reviews and articles in the
New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street
Journal, the Village Voice, American Theater, Asian Theater Journal, Theater,
Natural History, and Cultural Survival. She authored a book and many published articles on
the performing arts and the contemporary politics of Cambodia,
and produced the American tour of theaters from
Cambodia in the fall of 1990.
Blumenthal has served as a consultant for public
television performing-arts projects, university theater/theater programs, and the
National Endowment for the Arts. Her photographs have appeared in the New York
Times, the Los Angeles Times, Dance Magazine, Natural History, Cultural
Survival, and the Village Voice. Her awards include a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship,
a Kent (Danforth) Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the George Jean Nathan
Award for Dramatic Criticism, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
for University Teachers, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency. At
Rutgers, she has taught history of theater, theater criticism, introduction to
graduate study in theater, and modern experimental theater.
Books include:
Puppetry: A World History
Julie Taymor, Playing With Fire (with Julie Taymor)
Joseph Chaikin: Exploring at the Boundaries of Theater
Les danseuses sacrées d’Angkor (with Suppya Nut)
David Letwin
Dramatic Literature, Script Analysis
Joseph Mancuso
Theater Appreciation
Joseph A. Mancuso has more than twenty years of significant experience as an
artist, educator and arts/business administrator including a combined sixteen
years as Executive Director for The Union County Arts Center and the Shoestring
Players (co-founder). He is featured in an eight part educational series The
Art of Teaching The Arts produced by the Center for Public Broadcasting and
Annenberg Foundation. Mr. Mancuso has served as producer and/or director for
several regional as well as New York productions including his adaptation and
interpretation of the works of Carl Sandburg, Lessons On How To Behave Under
Peculiar Circumstances, which premiered at the 28th St. Playhouse, NYC. He
holds a Masters in Theater Arts from MGSA.
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