Russia's foremost biographer of Stanislavsky and a leading Russian Theater writer, scholar and critic, Dr. Smeliansky is the Associate Artistic Director of the Moscow Art Theatre and the Head of the Moscow Art Theatre School. He is Editor-in-Chief of Complete Works by Stanislavsky and The Moscow Art Theatre: 100 Years. His books include Is Comrade Bulgakov Dead? and Russian Theater after Stalin, published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Smeliansky has lectured on Russian Theater in the United States at Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Harvard, Princeton and Yale, as well as at the Sorbonne in France and Cambridge and Oxford in England. He is the Associate Director of Harvard University's IATT.