Debra Caplan is Associate Professor of Theater at Baruch College, City University of New York. Her book, Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy (University of Michigan Press, 2018), won the George Freedley Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association. Her work on Yiddish theater and performance has appeared in Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, Aschkenaz, Pakn Treger, In Geveb: A Journal of Jewish Studies, American Theatre Magazine, and New England Theatre Journal.