Bryan Reynolds (PhD & MA, Harvard University; BA, University of California, Berkeley) is Distinguished Professor, Chancellor's Professor and Claire Trevor Professor at the University of California, Irvine, where he has taught since 1998. He is critical theorist, performance theorist, and Shakespeare scholar who developed the combined socio-cognitive theory, performance aesthetics, and research methodology of transversal poetics. He is also a playwright, director, performer, and cofounder of the Transversal Theater Company, an Amsterdam-based collective of American and European artists. Produced by Transversal Theater or other organizations, Reynolds plays have been performed in over 70 venues in 19 countries on four continents. He has held visiting professorships at the University of London-Drama, the University of Amsterdam-Theater Studies, Utrecht University-Theater Studies, University of Cologne-American Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main-American Studies, University College Utrecht-Arts and Humanities, the University of California, San Diego-Theatre, Literature, Cognitive Science, the American University of Beirut-English, University of Tsukuba-Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nairobi-Department of Literature, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt-Communications, University of Lorraine-Arts, Sciences, & Business Management, INSEEC Business School (L'Institut des hautes études économiques et commerciales)-Marketing, Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, ESSCA Business School (École Supérieure Des Sciences Commerciales)-Sustainability, Paris, Strasbourg; and he has taught at Deleuze Camp at Schloss Wahn, University of Cologne, Germany, and the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, Poland, among other academic and performing arts institutions. Reynolds is also a regular contributor to Freeskier Magazine, where he publishes articles derived from his ongoing research on extreme sports.
Phone: 9498244806
Address: Bryan Reynolds
Claire Trevor Professor
Department of Drama
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-2775
USA