Robert Brustein is a playwright, director, actor, and founding artistic director of two major theatre companies--the Yale Repertory and American Repertory theatres. He served thirteen years as dean of the Yale School of Drama, where he founded Yale Cabaret and Theatre Magazine, and twenty-one years as professor of English at Harvard, where he founded the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Currently distinguished scholar in residence at Suffolk University, he is a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts.
