Zelda Fichandler was an American stage producer, director and educator. She was the cofounder and artistic director of Arena Stage and headed the graduate school of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts from 1984-2009. In 1996, Fichandler was awarded a National Medal of Arts. She was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1999.
Todd London is an essayist, novelist, arts journalist, and theatre historian. He has written, edited, or contributed to more than twenty books, including An Ideal Theater: Founding Visions for a New American Art. London is the Co-Head of the MFA Playwriting Program at the New School for Social Research and the Director of Theatre Relations for the Dramatists Guild of America.