Claudia Orenstein

Claudia Orenstein, Theatre Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, has spent nearly two decades writing on contemporary and traditional puppetry in the US and Asia. Recent publications include the co-edited volumes Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations with Alissa Mello and Cariad Astles and The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance with Dassia Posner and John Bell. She is a Board Member of UNIMA-USA and Associate Editor of Asian Theatre Journal. Current book projects are Thinking Through the Puppet: Essays on Puppet Dramaturgy and a two-volume co-edited anthology, Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects with Tim Cusack. She is the recipient of a 2021-22 Fulbright Research Fellowship for research on ritual puppetry in Japan.