Robert Knopf

A theater director and writer, Robert Knopf is the author of "The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton" (Princeton), "The Director as Collaborator" (Routledge), and *Script Analysis for Theatre* (Bloomsbury/Methuen). For Yale University Press, he edited "Theater and Film" and the two volume set, *Theater of the Avant-Garde*. He has directed plays at Circle-in-the-Square Downtown, Cherry Lane Studio, Paradise Factory, Circle Rep Lab, and New York's historic Town Hall, as well as for NPR Playhouse. He is the former chair of Theater and Dance at the University at Buffalo, where he is professor emeritus..