Marcelo Rubens Paiva is a Brazilian writer, public speaker, and the subject of aplay and a film that received several honors at the Gramado Festival of Brazilian Cinema. He writes a blog for the online version of Estadao.David George isa professor of Spanish and Portuguese and the chair of the Latin American Studies Programat Lake Forest College. He is the author of books that includeFlash & Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period and The Modern Brazilian Stage, and the translator of Early Mourning and Village of the Ghost Bells. He lives in Lake Forest, Illinois."