MATC
is pleased to announce that its 2008 Keynote Speaker will
be
Professor Alisa Solomon,Columbia University
In
addition to contributing occasionally to The Nation, The Forward, The New York Times,
and other publications, Alisa Solmon was on staff at the Village Voice for 21
years, where she won awards for her reporting on reproductive
rights, electoral politics, women's sports, and immigration
policy. Solomon's book, Re-Dressing the Canon:
Essays on Theater and Gender, won the George Jean Nathan
Award for Dramatic Criticism. She is the editor of three
anthologies: Wrestling
with Zion: Progressive
Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict (with Tony Kushner); Theater and Social
Change (Theater, 31:3); and The Queerest Art: Essays
on Lesbian and Gay Theater (with Framji Minwalla). Solomon
holds a doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from
Yale.
