Edwin Wilson received his Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. He has taught at Yale, Hofstra, Vanderbilt, Hunter College, and currently directs the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the City University of New York. He served as theater critic for the Wall Street Journal for 22 years. He was the president of the New York Drama Critics Circle and served several times on the Tony Nominating Committee and the Pulitzer Prize Drama Jury. He is on the boards of the John Golden Fund, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Theatre Development Fund, of which he was president. He is the author of The Theater Experience and co-author with Alvin Goldfarb of the Anthology of Living Theater and Living Theater: A History.