Field-Of-Study: Drama and Performance Art

Director Elizabeth LeCompte has sustained an impressive career for more than thirty years in contemporary theater.  After graduating Skidmore College, Ms. LeCompte served as a member and artistic director of The Performance Group in New York.  She became a founding member of The Wooster Group in 1975, and is presently the artistic director of the

Shirley Lauro is currently publishing the anthology Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women, edited with Alexis Greene, to be released by The New Press in June 2009.   In 2008, Ms. Lauro received an Ensemble Studio Theater Sloan Foundation Commission for her new work What Cost the Moon: Madame Curie’s Private Life.  She also first