Artist

(Production and New Translation Dramaturg) Steppenwolf: Grand Concourse, Russian Transport, Three Sisters. Connecticut Repertory Theatre: Pride and Prejudice, A Flea in Her Ear, Othello, Tommy, Comedy of Errors, Galileo. Posner is a theatre historian, dramaturg, translator, puppeteer, and Associate Professor of Theatre and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. Her books include Three Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev (co-edited); The Director’s Prism: E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde; and The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance (co-edited). She is currently writing an artistic and political history of Jewish-Ukrainian director Alexander Tairov’s Moscow Kamerny Theatre.