Russell Vandenbroucke’s other plays include: ELEANOR: IN HER OWN WORDS, from the writings of Eleanor Roosevelt, which won an Emmy Award and was broadcast by PBS on American Playhouse; SCHOOL PLAY, inspired by the 50th anniversary of Brown v. The Board of Education; SOLDIERS CIRCLE, dramatizing Americans in the Army from recruitment through training to deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan, then home again; and BREAD AND PEACE, commissioned to commemorate the 150th birthday of Jane Addams, the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Adaptations include: THE TROJAN WOMEN (Euripides) into contemporary verse; Ibsen’s AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, transposed to Chicago and a polluted Lake Michigan; and HOLIDAY MEMORIES from two Truman Capote stories. Books: Truths the Hand Can Touch: The Theatre of Athol Fugard; collecting and editing The Theatre Quotation Book: A Treasury of Insights and Insults; and editing Contemporary Australian Plays, after being a Fulbright Senior Scholar Down Under. Other international experience: World Peace Fellow, Rotary International’s Peace and Conflict Studies Center of Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) where he adapted and directed AN EVENING WITH GLOBAL PEACEMAKERS; lectures on American culture and theatre in Finland, Rumania, and (then) East Germany for the U.S. State Department; talks in Vietnam, Japan, and Canada; and Palestinian American Research Center, faculty travel. He covered Italy’s Spoleto Festival and South Africa’s National Arts Festival for American Theatre magazine. Director: THE BLOOD KNOT in San Francisco, PROOF and A CHRISTMAS CAROL in Virginia, SNAPSHOT for the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and many others as Artistic Director of Northlight Theatre including Ibsen’s HEDDA GABLER, Anna Deavere Smith’s FIRES IN THE MIRROR, and the premieres of Arnold Wesker’s THREE WOMEN TALKING (also for radio) and Martha Boesing’s MY OTHER HEART, supported by the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays. Having directed OPPENHEIMER’S ATOMIC BOMBERS with Equity actors in Flagstaff (in rep with Brecht’s GALILEO) and with students in Louisville, he looks forward to doing so after the film Oppenheimer has made audiences familiar with the play’s backdrop.