Classic Plays by Women: From 1600 - 2000

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Susan Croft Susan is a writer historian curator and researcher. She worked in the USA with the Omaha Magic Theatre in the early 1980s returning to Britain to work as a dramaturg with small-scale theatre companies and founding New Playwrights Trust of which she was Director from 1986-89. She taught Creative Arts (Performance) at Nottingham Trent University and then was Senior Research Fellow in Performance Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University to 1996. From 1997-2005 she was Curator of Contemporary Performance at the Theatre Museum where she worked on the National Video Archive of Performance. She also curated four major exhibitions including Let Paul Robeson Sing! and Architects of Fantasy and pioneered a range of initiatives to record the history of black and Asian theatre in Britain. She has written extensively on women playwrights including: ... She Also Wrote Plays: an International Guide to Women Playwrights from the 10th to the 21st Century (Faber 2001) and edited Votes for Women and other plays (Aurora Metro 2009). She is working on A Critical Bibliography of Plays Published by Women Playwrights in English to 1914 (working title) for Manchester University Press and a major anthology Staging the New Woman with Sherry Engle. She also runs the project Unfinished Histories: Recording the History of Alternative Theatre with Jessica Higgs a major initiative to record oral histories and preserve archives of the alternative theatre movement from the 1960s to the 1980s. See www.susan.croft.btinternet.co.uk for further details. She lives in London with her husband and two children.