Tom Sellar

Tom Sellar, a writer, editor, dramaturg and curator, is Editor of Yale’s international journal “Theater” and Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale University.

Sellar’s arts writing and criticism has appeared in publications including Artforum, BOMB, The Νew Υοrk Times, The Guardian, TheatreForum, and American Theatre. From 2001–2016 he was a frequent contributor to the “Village Voice,” where he covered theatre and performance art nationally, serving as an Obie award judge and for two years as chief theatre critic.

He curated the series “Bodies on the Gears” for the 2019 American Realness festival in Νew Υork, the 2017 multi-arts series “Hidden Hate/Hidden Love” with Anna Deavere Smith at the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, and served as curator of Prelude 2015 (“What Could We Build, or Is the Future Already Behind Us?”) and Prelude 2016 (“Welcome Failure”) with Antje Oegel at Νew Υork’s Martin E. Segal Center. He has also curated public programs for the Prague Quadrennial (“Stages of Utopia,” 2014), Philadelphia Fringe Arts (“Live Remix: Stage Adaptations in the New Media Age,” 2015), Fusebox Festival, and other organizations.

He has given guest lectures and workshops at many universities, theatres, and art centers including Swarthmore College, Harvard University, De Singel (Antwerp), Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival, and Signal/CIFAS (Brussels).

While in Αthens, Sellar organized more than a dozen focused one-on-one interviews with the artistic, curatorial, policy and other members of the artistic community of Αthens. These conversations were not open to the public in order to safeguard and propel the level of conversations and to allow maximum transparency during these conversations.