Eric Bentley is a critic, scholar, translator and playwright. He has been Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University and Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. He served as drama critic of the New Republic and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1997-98. Once known as a blunt and controversial theatre critic, Bentley is now regarded as a forerunning expert on the theatre of Bertolt Brecht. His Round 2 transposes Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde, and its sexualised, 19th-century Viennese onto the tragic-comic modern life of New York homosexuals. Gerald Killingworth was born in Peterborough and read English at Cambridge. He trained as a a teacher, spending some years at schools in Greece, before returning to Britain. He is the Head of English at a school in Surrey. Plays include: Abroad; Sunspot Sonata; Nightbirds, Days of Cavafy and Welcome Wanderer. As well as plays, Gerald writes novels for adults and children. Joe Pintauro was born in Ozone Park, New York, in 1930. He graduated from Fordham University, NY with an M.A. in American Literature before studying Theology for four years at Niagara University. He has published ten books of poetry, as well as a novel, Cold Hands (1979). He currently lives in Sag Harbor Village, NY. He is best known for works such as Raft of the Medusa, Beside Herself, Cacciatore and Men's Lives. Plays by Joe Pintauro, a collection of twenty-two of his one-act plays was published in New York in 1989. His plays have been included in the Methuen collections Gay Plays 4 and 5. Neil Bartlett is one of his generation's most respected and innovative theatre directors. His highly individual translations of French and German classical theatre, and charcteristically theatrical adaptations of Dickens, most of them originated while he was Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith in London, have been played around the world. His plays have premiered at the Royal Court, at the Manchester International Festival and at the National Theatre in London.
