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.