William Peterson is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at California State University, San Bernardino. He has lived and worked in Singapore, helping to create and implement the country's first university-level Theatre Studies Program. Peterson has contributed to Contemporary Dramatists, 6th ed. (1999), Disorientations: Intercultural Theatre from an Australian Perspective (1999), and Second Chance: A Cross Cultural Theatre Casebook (1996). His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Theatre Insight, Journal of Dramatic Theatre and Criticism, and Asian Theatre Journal.