Our talented team of writers!
nicole colbert
Nicole Colbert is a New York City–based director/choreographer. She is artistic director of Nicole Colbert Dance/Theatre, a company dedicated to creating a platform for inter-generational and multicultural performers to explore the intersectionality of dance and theater. She has shown her work in New York, New Orleans, Denmark, London, and Russia. Recently, her evening length work, Last Stop: Desire, a dance/theater adaptation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire was shown as part of the Tennessee Williams/Literary Festival at the New Orleans Jazz Museum in New Orleans, LA. She is trained in dance, choreography and theater. She was selected for the 2018/2019 SDC Foundation’s Observership Class. She teaches English at CUNY as an Adjunct Professor.
deirdre donovan
Deirdre Donovan is a journalist whose work has been published in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and many regional publications. As a theater writer, she has contributed reviews and articles to such New York City publications as New York Amsterdam News, the Brooklyn Paper, Our Town, West Side Spirit, and to the websites CurtainUp, Theaterscene and Intermissionmag.
stan friedman
Stanford Friedman holds an MLS from Rutgers and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia, and his work has covered a broad array of subjects. He has written cover stories and reportage for Library Journal, obituaries for The Times of London, poetry for several national journals and more than 200 cookbook reviews for Publishers Weekly. Prior to his current career, as Senior Research Librarian at Condé Nast, he worked a variety of theatrical odd jobs, including Special Effects Technician for the original Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors. He is currently a voting member of the Drama Desk.
edward karam
Edward Karam has been a freelance theater writer in New York since 1995. For seven years he covered New York theater for The Times of London and for two more years he served as The Guardian theater correspondent. His work has appeared in American Theatre, Theatermania, the Daily News, InTheater, Theatre Crafts International, and at Playbill.com. He is currently on the board of the Drama Desk and serves as the Treasurer.
rachel s. Kovacs
Rachel S. Kovacs is a professor of communication at CUNY, a PR professional, and freelance writer/editor. She trained and has performed in both the U.S. and UK. Her M.A. and Ph.D. have led to research, publications, and presentations on U.K. broadcasting activism and cultural integrity in audiovisual media. She reviews theater and films for publications in the metropolitan New York area, London, and Manchester and is enjoying this opportunity to review new and innovative Off-Broadway productions.
colin macdonald
Colin Macdonald has a Ph.D. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center, where his work focused on Shakespeare and early modern theater. He edits scholarly journals and books for a variety of university presses. His writing on theater has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Salon, and the Shakespeare Newsletter. He is a voting member of the Drama Desk.
Marc Miller
Marc Miller has written on theater for such publications as Stagebill, Playbill (out-of-town), In Theater magazine, and Stages, and such websites as Theatermania, Backstage, nytheatreguide.com, and theaterscene.com. He's a contributor to the Theatermania Guide to Musical Theater Recordings (now active online as castalbumreviews.com). As a lyricist, he has seen his work performed at the American Music Theater Festival and the New York Festival of Song.
Adrienne Onofri
Adrienne Onofri was a longtime contributor to the Off Off Broadway Review (OOBR) and to BroadwayWorld.com, where she wrote a monthly profile of an ensemble member and several series on women theater artists, among other stories. She previously covered New York theater for CurtainUp, the Greenwich Village Press and the West Side Spirit. She also is a travel writer, licensed New York City tour guide and author of the books Walking Brooklyn and Walking Queens.
YANI PEREz
Yani Perez is a poet, playwright, translator and educator. Her plays have been presented in various theaters in New York City, the Alternative Theatre Festival in Bogotá (Patricia Ariza), La Mama and Yale University. She works at IATI Theater, one of the oldest Latinx theaters in NYC. She completed her M.F.A in Creative Writing at Long Island University Brooklyn Campus. She is currently working on translations of Latinx artists in hopes of introducing them to English speaking audiences.
james wilson
James Wilson is the Executive Officer of the Theatre and Performance program at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (University of Michigan Press, 2010) and Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre: Pedagogy of the Oppressors (Palgrave, 2023). His essays and reviews have appeared in numerous academic journals, chapter anthologies, and online publications. He is a voting member of the Drama Desk.
charles wright
Charles Wright has written about theater and books for a variety of magazines, newspapers, and online publications. His essays have appeared in 10 volumes of the Best Plays Theater Yearbook, the annual record of American theater founded in 1920 and published most recently by Limelight Editions; he was a contributor to the TheaterMania Guide to Musical Theater Recordings (Back Stage Books, 2004, and recently updated online at http://castalbumreviews.com/). He has also contributed the program notes for almost 100 presentations of Musicals in Mufti, the popular Off-Broadway series of the York Theatre Company in New York City. He is currently the president of the Drama Desk.