Toby Zinman
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BSR Contributor Since March 17, 2010
Toby Zinman is an author, a professor of English at the University of the Arts, and a theater critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She lives in Haddonfield, N.J.
Toby Zinman is Professor of English at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was a Fulbright professor at Tel Aviv University and a visiting professor in China. She publishes widely and lectures internationally on American drama. Her fifth book, Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined, was recently published by Methuen, and she has just finished an essay, "Visions of Tragedy in Contemporary American Drama," due out in 2017.
Zinman is also the chief theatre critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer where she reviews New York and London as well as Philadelphia. She was named by American Theatre magazine as, “one of the 12 most influential critics in America.”
Her travel writing has taken her all over the world, from dogsledding in the Yukon to hiking across England.