Dassia N. Posner is an award-winning theatre historian, translator, dramaturg, and puppeteer. She is Associate Professor of Theatre and Slavic Languages & Literatures at Northwestern University. Her books include The Director’s Prism: E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde (2016); The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance (2014, co-edited); and Three Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev (2021, co-edited), which won the 2022 American Society for Theatre Research Translation Prize. Recent creative work includes dramaturgy and translation work for Chekhov’s Seagull at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Her current book project reclaims the legacy of the Moscow Kamerny Theatre and its founders, Jewish-Ukrainian director Alexander Tairov and lead actress Alisa Koonen.