Drama
Education
B.A, Boston University
M.A., New York University
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma.
Biography
Linda Ben-Zvi is Professor of Theatre Studies at Tel Aviv University and Professor emerita, Colorado State University. She was named a John N. Stern Distinguished Professor at Colorado and was a Lady Davis Professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She is president of the International Samuel Beckett Society, chair since 1996 of the Beckett Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre Research, and Editor of
Assaph: Studies in the Theatre, the Tel Aviv University English language theatre journal. Her books include
Samuel Beckett, and the biography
Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times, which won the George Freedley Special Jury Prize, Theatre Library Association, 2006. She has edited
Women in Beckett, Theatre in Israel, Susan Glaspell, Drawing on Beckett, Glaspell’s
The Road to the Temple,
Brecht: Philosophy and Performance (with Gad Kaynar),
Staging Calamity (with Tracy C. Davis),
Beckett at 100 (with Angela Moorjani), and is presently editing
The Complete Plays of Susan Glaspell (with J. Ellen Gainor).
