Alexis Greene is the author and editor of ten books about the theater. Most recently she wrote Shakespeare Theatre Company: The History of a Classical Theatre, the history of this outstanding Washington, DC theatre company. The book, which contains more than 250 photographs, was published in September 2025, and an interview with Ms. Greene about this book is available online at Washington Unbound.

Greene has also written and edited books about women in the theater. In 2021 her biography of the pioneering playwright and director Emily Mann, the first woman to be artistic director of the McCarter Theatre Center, in Princeton, New Jersey, was published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. This is the first biography of this exceptional artist, who led the McCarter to national recognition for three decades, until retiring in 2020.

In addition to her biography of Emily Mann, Greene has written or edited numerous books about women in the American theater, including the biography Lucille Lortel: The Queen of Off Broadway; Women Who Write Plays: Interviews with American Dramatists; and the collection Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women, edited with the playwright Shirley Lauro. This volume contains one of Cindy Cooper’s excellent plays, Words of Choice.

In addition to writing and editing books about American theater, Greene has taught theater at New York University; she co-founded and was first president of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA); and during the 1980s she was Literary Manager at the George St. Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. 

Cindy Cooper is an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced in the US, Canada and Europe. In New York, her work has been at Primary Stages, The Women’s Project (WP Theatre) (How She Played the Game), Wings (Strange Light), Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio, MultiStages, Town Hall, Anne Frank Center USA (Silence Not, A Love Story), Museum of Tolerance, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Chain Theater, Montauk Library, La Mama Galleria,  Center for Jewish History, MultiStages (festival), WOW Café, and more, along with productions in Chicago, Minneapolis, DC, Philadelphia, Boston, LA, Maryland, Texas, Florida, Budapest, Helsinki, Jerusalem, and elsewhere. She has won awards from Pen & Brush, Samuel French Play Festival, Malibu International Playwriting Festival, Nantucket Theatre, Equity Library Theater, City of Providence, Quixote Foundation and others. A two-time Jerome Fellow, her plays are in 17 volumes. She is the founder of ReproFreedomArts.org, which focuses on art and theater supporting reproductive rights. She is also a journalist who writes about justice and human rights, including for Glamour, The Nation, Ms., Perspectives on Women and Law, Women’s eNews, and for nonprofits, such as Amnesty USA, Lambda, HIAS, the Center for Reproductive Rights and others. Drawing upon her background as a lawyer, she is the author of eight nonfiction or historic narrative books including ‘Mockery of Justice,’ made into a CBS-TV movie. In and out of theatre, she is an activist and on the Board of the Coalition for Women in the Arts and Media founded the Collaboration Award, and at the League of Professional Theatre Women launched conversations with artistic directors in Theatre Connections. www.cyncooperwriter.net.