Wendy Arons

Wendy Arons is a professor of dramatic literature at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama, where she is also the Option Coordinator for Dramaturgy.

Her research interests include performance and ecology, 18th- and 19th-century theatre history, German theatre, feminist theatre, and performance and ethnography. She has worked as a professional dramaturg with a number of leading directors, including Anne Bogart and Robert Falls, and has translated a number of plays from German into English, including "The Good Person of Sezuan" in collaboration with Tony Kushner. In 2014-15 she served as script advisor on a new play, "JH: Mechanics of a Legend," written and directed by Anya Martin.

In 2012 Arons was part of a team of collaborators who received a three-year NEH “Scholarly Editions and Translations” grant to support the first complete and annotated translation into English of G.E. Lessing’s "Hamburg Dramaturgy," a set of 104 essays on the theater written during the brief life of the Hamburg National Theater (1767-69). The ongoing work on the new English version can be found at http://mcpress.media-commons.org/hamburg/. In her spare time, she authors a blog on local theatre and culture, “The Pittsburgh Tatler” (http://wendyarons.wordpress.com).