London, Todd

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London, Todd

PERSONAL

Companion of Karen Hartman (a playwright); children: Guthrie, Grisha (son). Education: Boston University, M.F.A.; American University, Ph.D.

Addresses:

Contact—c/o Theatre Communications Group, 520 Eighth Ave., 24th Floor, New York, NY 10018-4156.

Career:

Artistic director, educator, magazine editor, critic, and novelist. Classic Stage Company, New York City, associate artistic director, 1987-88; New Dramatists (nonprofit center), New York City, artistic director. Yale University, faculty member; Harvard University, visiting lecturer. Theatre Development Fund, director of Playwrights Project; New York State Council on the Arts, past chair of theatre panel; member of board of directors, Theatre Communications Group, John Golden Fund, and Talking Band. American Theatre, past managing editor.

Awards, Honors:

George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, for essays in American Theatre.

WRITINGS

Published Works:

The Artistic Home: Discussions with Artistic Directors of America's Institutional Theatres, Theatre Communications Group, 1988.

(Editor) Contemporary American Monologues for Men, Theatre Communications Group, 1998.

(Editor) Contemporary American Monologues for Women, Theatre Communications Group, 1998.

The World's Room (novel), Steerforth Press, 2001.

(Editor) New Dramatists: The Best Plays by the Graduating Class of 2000, Smith & Kraus, 2002.

(Editor) New Dramatists: The Best Plays by the Graduating Class of 2001, Smith & Kraus, 2003.

Contributor to other books. Contributor of articles and essays to periodicals in the United States and around the world.

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