Ryan Claycomb is Professor of English and Theatre at Colorado State University. He writes and teaches courses on modern drama, life writing, performance studies, critical theory, and contemporary literature. He is the author of numerous articles on performance and life writing in journals such as Modern Drama, Narrative, and Journal of Dramatic theory and Criticism, and he is the former literary manager of The Theatre Conspiracy, a Washington-D.C.-based feminist theatre company in the 1990s.