Eileen Blumenthal (theater history and criticism) is a
theater critic and historian. She received her Ph.D. in history of
theater from Yale University in 1975. Her specialties are contemporary
experimental theater, puppet and object theater, and the theater of
Southeast Asia. Three hundred of her reviews and other articles have
appeared in The Village Voice, American Theatre, the New York Times, and many other publications. She is author of Joseph Chaikin Exploring at the Boundaries of Theatre (Cambridge University Press), Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire (Harry Abrams, Inc.) (coauthored with Julie Taymor), and the upcoming The Story of Puppets (Harry Abrams, Inc.) to be published in fall of 2004.
