Bonnie Marranca is a New York City-based critic and publisher and the editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, which she co-founded in 1976.
[1] She has written several collections of criticism, including Performance Histories (2008), Ecologies of Theatre (2012), and Timelines (2021).
Her 1984 book Theatrewritings received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
[2] Marranca has edited numerous anthologies of dramatic texts and criticism including New Europe: Plays from the Continent (2009), Plays for the End of the Century (1996), The Hudson Valley Reader (1995), and American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard (1981), in addition to The Theatre of Images (1977), a seminal collection featuring Robert Wilson, Lee Breuer, and Richard Foreman—early exponents of what was later termed postdramatic theatre.
[3] Most recently, she was a professor of theatre at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts.