The Universal: The Simplest Place Possible

Valentina Valentini is an Italian critic and curator who lives in Rome and teaches at the University of Calabria. She has published several books on performance and media, including Teatro in immagine and Dal Vivo. She edits a theatre series, with volumes on Franco Scaldati, Squat Theatre, Teatro della Fortezza, Peter Sellars, and Eimuntas Nekrosius. Her essays have been published in Biblioteca Teatrale, Ariel, The Drama Review, Theaterschrift, FilmCritica, Drammaturgia, and Performance Research.

Bonnie Marranca currently teaches at Princeton University.

Jane House co-edited, with Antonio Attisani, 20th-Century Italian Drama, An Anthology: The First 50 Years (Columbia University Press, 1995) and has translated works by, among others, Ettore Petrolini, Pier Maria Rosso Di San Secondo, Manlio Santanelli, and Natalia Ginzburg.