Melinda Powers

Melinda Powers is Professor of English and Theatre at the City University of New York. She teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice as well as the Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance at CUNY's Graduate Center. Combining her interests in historiography and performance theory, she is the editor of Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences: An Anthology of Adaptations and Interviews (Routledge 2020), and she has authored two books Diversifying Greek Drama on the Contemporary US Stage (Oxford 2018) and Athenian Tragedy in Performance: A Guide to Contemporary Studies and Historical Debates (Iowa 2014). In addition, she has published several articles, reviews, and films on the reception of ancient Greek drama. Her work has been supported by grants such as the American Philosophical Society's Franklin Grant, and she regularly participates with Aquila Theatre in their National Endowment of the Humanities programs which work on ancient drama with veterans.