Davi Napoleon

This book is a major study of the economic changes in the American not-for-profit theater and the impact of these on the art produced.

Napoleon did her undergraduate work in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

She earned a BA in psychology while studying playwriting with Kenneth Thorpe Rowe, then did a master's degree at Michigan in early childhood education.

[5] Napoleon has written extensively about the history and issues surrounding the not-for-profit theater in America.

Hal Prince wrote the foreword to the book that found a readership among working artists both because it is one of the first complex studies of regional theater and because of its dramatic structure and narrative.

From 1986 to 1988 and wrote a theater column for The Faster Times, which was an online newspaper published by Sam Apple.

Napoleon has written several plays, including Four's Company, produced at the Greenwich Mews Theatre in New York City in 1974.