Rush Rehm

An actor, director, and professor of Theater & Performance Studies and Classics, Rush Rehm publishes in the areas of Greek tragedy and contemporary politics. He also serves as Artistic Director of Stanford Repertory Theater, a professional theater company that presents staged readings, full productions, and a dramatic festival and symposium based on a major playwright or theme each summer.

Rehm’s books include Aeschylus’ *Oresteia: A Theatre Version*(Melbourne 1978); *Greek Tragic Theatre* (Routledge: London 1992, paper 1994, modern Greek translation 1999, 2nd revised edition, *Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre (2016); *Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Marriage and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy* (Princeton 1994, paper 1996); *The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy* (Princeton 2002); *Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World* (Duckworth: London 2003), *Euripides' Electra* (Bloomsbury: London 2020)

Recent contributions to edited volumes include essays in *Greek Drama in the Americas* (Oxford), *Aeschylus’ Tragedies: The Cultural Divide and the Trauma of Adaptation* (Brill: Leiden), *The Brill Companion to Sophocles* (Brill: Leiden), *The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre* (Cambridge), *Rebel Women* (Methuen: London), *Aeschylus’ Agamemnon in Performance* (Oxford), *Sophocles and the Greek Language* (Brill), *Antigone’s Answer* (Atlanta), *Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds*(Oxford), *Space in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative* (Mnemosyne), *Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy* (Oxford), *Looking at Antigone* (Bloomsbury: London), *The Brill Companion to Euripides* (Leiden), *Looking at Agamemnon* (Bloomsbury), *Looking at Persians* (Bloomsbury 2021), *Handbook on Theatre and Migration* (Palgrave 2022), among others.

As well as seminars on ancient theater and culture, Rehm teaches courses on contemporary politics, the media, and U.S. imperialism.