Daniel Mufson

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

“Notes from Berlin” Blog: http://nyc-berlin.blogspot.com/