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About Bonnie Marranca
- Bonnie Marranca is a New York City-based critic, the publisher/editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, which she co-founded, in 1976.
- She has written three collections of criticism: Performance Histories, Ecologies of Theatre, and Theatrewritings, which received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
- Collections of interviews include Conversations with Meredith Monk and Conversations on Art and Performance.
- ;Among the anthologies she has edited are: New Europe: plays from the continent, Plays for the End of the Century; A Slice of Life: Contemporary Writers on Food; The Hudson Valley Reader; American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard; and The Theatre of Images, which is one of the seminal books of contemporary theatre.
- Her writings have been translated into twenty languages. Marranca received a B.A.
- in English from Montclair State University, and an M.A.
- in Theatre from Hunter College.
- She also attended University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
- She enrolled in the Graduate Center of The City University of New York, Ph.D.
- Program in Theatre, but withdrew from it to found Performing Arts Journal and began a professional career in arts publishing.
- In 1990 she received the Witkacy Prize. She is a Professor of Theatre at Eugene Lang College/The New School for Liberal Arts.
- She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the 2011 ATHE Excellence in Editing Award for Sustained Achievement, and was awarded the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship in the UK.
- Bonnie Marranca is a Fulbright Senior Scholar who has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, Duke University, the University of California-San Diego, Free University of Berlin, the Autonomous University of Barcelona Institute for Theatre, University of Bucharest, and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro .
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