Vessela Warner, holds a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Dramatic Theory from University of Washington. She is a professor of theatre history and dramatic literature at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research focuses on Southeast European theatre and performance, postcolonial and performance theories, and dramaturgy. She co-edited and contributed to Staging Postcommunism: Alternative Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe after 1989 (University of Iowa Press 2020). Warner has also contributed to Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance (2022), Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits (Edinburgh University Press 2020), The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy (2015), From Exsilium to Exile: Forced Migrations in Historical Perspective (University of Gdansk Press, 2014), International Women Stage Directors (University of Illinois, 2013), and Theatre and Performance in Eastern Europe: The Changing Scene (Scarecrow Press, 2008), among many others. She has also published in TheatreForum, Slavic and East European Performance, Slavic and East European Journal, Balkanistica, and others. Warner served as President and Vice President of the Bulgarian Studies Association between 2013 and 2020 and Regional Vice President of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, 2019-2022. She has dramaturged for Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, and Overground Physical Theatre, NYC.

theatre history, modern European theatre, postcolonial theory, performance theory, animal studies, East-Central European theatre and performance, musical theatre

Bulgarian, Russian, North Macedonian

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