Contact Neil Blackadder /images/Faculty_and_Staff/blackadder-component.jpg Professor Emeritus of Theatre Professor Emeritus of Theatre 2 East South Street Galesburg IL 61401-4999 309-341-7502 +13093417502 nmblackadder@knox.edu <p>"My recent work focuses above all on the translation of contemporary drama, mostly from German, also from French. My translation of Swiss playwright Lukas B&auml;rfuss' The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents has been produced in London and New York, and in 2011 I received grants from PEN and from the Howard Foundation to translate several more plays by B&auml;rfuss. Early in 2014, Red Tape Theatre in Chicago will premiere my translation of hamlet is dead. no gravity by the Austrian writer Ewald Palmetshofer. Other playwrights whose work I've translated include Rebekka Kricheldorf, whose Rosa and Blanca I directed at Knox in 2008. Meanwhile, I continue to pursue research as a theatre historian, particularly in the area addressed by my 2003 book - the composition and behavior of theatre audiences."</p>