Annette J. Saddik is an Associate Professor in the English Department at New York City College of Technology (CUNY), and also teaches in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her area of specialization is twentieth-century drama and performance, particularly the work of Tennessee Williams. She is the author of Contemporary American Drama (2007) and The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams’ Later Plays (1999), and has edited and introduced a collection of Williams’ previously unpublished later plays, The Traveling Companion and Other Plays (2008). In addition, she has published essays on Williams as well as David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Antonin Artaud, and Tony Kushner in Modern Drama, TDR: the journal of performance studies, Études Théâtrales, The South Atlantic Review, The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, The Undiscovered Country: The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams, Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Tennessee Williams and several encyclopedias of theater history. Dr. Saddik also serves on the editorial board of the journal Theatre Topics.