Robyn Quick is a professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at Towson University,
where she teaches theatre history and dramaturgy. She has presented at numerous national
and international conferences, and has been published in American Theatre, The New England Journal of Theatre, Slavic and East European Performance, Theatre Studies, and the Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, among others. She has served as a dramaturg at the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival,
PlayWorks, and Everyman Theatre, where she is the resident dramaturg. Her dramaturgy
has been recognized by the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas with the
Elliot Hayes Award for Excellence in Dramaturgy and by the American College Theatre
Festival with the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion. While serving as a Senior Fulbright
Scholar in Russia, she taught at the Russian State University for the Humanities and
directed at the Playwright and Director Center in Moscow. Robyn Quick holds a Ph.D.
in theatre studies from the University of Michigan.
