Dorothy Louise has adapted Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (also part of the Plays in Performance Series), and de Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro. She teaches theatre at Franklin & Marshall College and has been a Fellow of the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland. She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago where he is professor of classics, and Bernard Sahlins, founder and director of the Second City. They both live in Chicago, Illinois.