Essays
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- “The Burden of Irony, the Onus of Cool: The Wooster Group’s Influence on Cannon Company and Richard Maxwell.” Originally published in The Wooster Group and its Traditions. Ed. Johan Callens. P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2004.
- Berlin’s Holy of Holies. (On the 1996 Theatertreffen.) From PAJ 85, Vol 25, No. 1 (Jan. 2007), pp. 53-64.
- Performing Space and History: Theater der Welt ’96. From Theater, Vol. 27, Nos. 2 & 3 (double issue), pp. 147-154.
- “Cool Medium: Anne Bogart and the Choreography of Fear.” (Discusses the “Viewpoints” approach and performances of The Adding Machine, The Medium and Small Lives/Big Dreams at a celebration of Bogart’s work at Actors Theatre of Louisville.) From Theater, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 55-59.
- “The Critical Eye: Falling Standard.” (On the use of “Standard Speech” in American actor training.) From Theater, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 1994), pp. 78-81.
- “The Critical Eye: Interpret This.” (On dramaturgy, the interpretive work of directors and dramaturgs.) From Theater, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 116-119.
- “The Critical Eye: Quipping Boy.” (On the critical response to Paul Rudnick’s Jeffrey.) From Theater, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 116-119.
- “The Critical Eye: Sexual Perversity in Viragos.” (On the critical reception of David Mamet’s Oleanna.)From Theater, Issue 1, 1993.
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Bio
Daniel Mufson is an American freelance writer, translator, and editor. He lives in Berlin. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Village Voice, Washington D.C.’s City Paper, American Theatre, TDR, PAJ, and Germany’s Tageszeitung and Theater Heute, among others. He has translated plays, art criticism, and business texts. He is also the editor of Reza Abdoh, an anthology about an Iranian-American director and playwright, published by Johns Hopkins University Press under its PAJ imprint. He was the managing editor of Theater Magazine for two years in the 1990s, and founded and edited the (now defunct) online publication AlternativeTheater.com.
Daniel Mufson studied English and American History and Literature at Harvard. He holds an MFA and DFA (Doctor of Fine Arts) in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama. More recently, he earned a Master’s degree in Kulturjournalismus (Cultural Journalism) at the Universität der Künste, having written a thesis on the depiction of foreigners, primarily asylum-seekers, on East German television after the fall of the Wall. He is currently writing a book on the war on terror.
Email: mufson [at] gmail.com
Tel. +49 (0)30 2804-6348
“Notes from Berlin” Blog: http://nyc-berlin.blogspot.com/
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