Scholarship and Biography

Ryan McKittrick is Assistant Professor of Theater Arts at Brandeis University and the Director of Artistic Programs/Dramaturg at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.). Working with directors from around the world, he has served as the lead dramaturg on more than thirty professional productions of dramas, musicals, and operas, over half of which were world premieres. His articles on theater have appeared in The Boston Globe, Correspondence, Theatre, A.R.T. News, and ARTicles, and his co-translations for the stage with Julia Smeliansky include Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and Lady with a Lapdog, Rezo Gabriadze's Forbidden Christmas, and The Selected Letters of Olga Bokshanskaya.

Honors

National Theatre Conference Award
National Theatre Conference, 2002
TCG Next Generations Award
Theatre Communications Group, 2002-2004

Organizational Affiliations

Associate Professor of the Practice of Theater Arts, Department of Theater Arts, Brandeis University

Director of Artistic Programs/Dramaturg, American Repertory Theater (United States, Cambridge) - ART

Education

Moscow Art Theatre School
M.F.A.
Harvard University
B.A.