Robert Brustein is a playwright, director, actor, and founding artistic director of two major theatre companies—the Yale Repertory and American Repertory theatres. He served thirteen years as dean of the Yale School of Drama, where he founded Yale Cabaret and Theatre Magazine, and twenty-one years as professor of English at Harvard, where he founded the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Currently distinguished scholar in residence at Suffolk University, he is a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts.
