Valleri Robinson

Biography

Valleri Robinson, author of Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America (2011) and Belarusian Theatre and the 2020 Pro-Democracy Protests: Documenting the Resistance (2024), teaches courses in documentary theatre, adapting Chekhov, theatre historiography, and 21st century dramaturgy. She is currently writing the book, Directing in Context: Javor Gardev’s Transformative Theatre, 1994-2924, for which she received a Fulbright Scholar award to work with Gardev in Sofia, Bulgaria in Spring 2026. Valleri was also a Fulbright Scholar in 2014, working with the Kolyada Theatre in Yekaterinburg, Russia. In the Spring of 2020, she was a Fellow at NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts in Spring 2020. As a Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project, Valleri has published essays and opinion pieces on contemporary events in the US and Eastern Europe in the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Public Seminar, Visible Magazine and United Press International.  Her scholarly articles and reviews are published in Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, the New England Theatre Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review and elsewhere. She is an affiliate of the Russian, East European, Eurasian Center and an affiliate faculty member in Slavic Languages and Literatures.