Award-winning dramaturg Judith Rudakoff has worked with emerging and established artists throughout Canada and in Cuba, Denmark, South Africa, England and USA. She is the creator of The Four Elements and Lomograms, transcultural dramaturgy methods. She is a past winner of the Elliott Hayes Dramaturgy award for her work on Lata Pada’s Revealed by Fire.

Her most recent book is Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away (2021). She is also the editor of Performing Exile: FOREIGN BODIES (2017), a collection of essays by and about artists living in exile. Recent books include Dramaturging Personal Narratives: Who am I and Where is Here? (2015) from Intellect Books (UK) and University of Chicago Press (North America); TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work (Intellect, 2012) and Between the Lines: The Process of Dramaturgy (with Lynn M. Thomson); Her articles on theatre and performance have appeared in The Drama Review, TheatreForum, Theatre Topics, and Canadian Theatre Review.

Rudakoff is a member of Playwrights Guild of Canada, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. She is a Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar of Theatre at York University.