Alexis Greene

ALEXIS GREENE Photo: Anita Shevett

FRONT LINES: POLITICAL PLAYS BY AMERICAN WOMEN. Alexis Greene & Shirley Lauro, editors

JULIAN ELTINGE

Welcome

WELCOME TO THE WEBSITE OF ALEXIS GREENE, AUTHOR, BOOK EDITOR, THEATER CRITIC, AND TEACHER OF THEATER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES

Alexis Greene lives in New York City, where she writes about the arts and about women. Author and editor of nine books about theater, she also teaches courses about women and theater at the college and university level.

Her newest book is FRONT LINES: POLITCAL PLAYS BY AMERICAN WOMEN, an anthology of plays edited with Shirley Lauro and published in June 2009 by The New Press.

Other recent books include THE STORY OF 42ND STREET, co-authored with Mary C. Henderson, and CURTAIN CALL: CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF WOMEN DESIGNING FOR LIVE PERFORMANCE, a 112-page art catalogue that Alexis edited for an exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Alexis is a member of PEN, The Authors' Guild, and is on the board of the League of Professional Theatre Women. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.









Selected Works:Click on a title below to go to the book's page

ART CATALOGUE
ANTHOLOGY OF PLAYS
FRONT LINES: POLITICAL PLAYS BY AMERICAN WOMEN
Alexis Greene & Shirley Lauro Editors
THEATER HISTORY
THE STORY OF 42ND STREET, Co-Author with Mary C. Henderson
A tantalizing journey through the grand historic theaters of the world's greatest thoroughfare.
WOMEN
WOMEN WRITING PLAYS: THREE DECADES OF THE SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN PRIZE [Editor]
Essays and memoirs celebrating three decades of women writing for the English-speaking theater
WOMEN WHO WRITE PLAYS: INTERVIEWS WITH AMERICAN DRAMATISTS [Editor]
Luxuriously in-depth interviews with playwrights such as Lynn Nottage, Paula Vogel, Cherrie Moraga
BIOGRAPHY
LUCILLE LORTEL: THE QUEEN OF OFF BROADWAY [Author]
The definitive life of the producer and philanthropist who helped found the experimental world of Off Broadway