Michael Elliot Rutenberg, PhD

Biography: Michael Elliot Rutenberg is a professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He received a BA from Brooklyn College and an MFA and DFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama. Rutenberg is a lifetime member of the famed Actors Studio, where he has developed and directed both new plays and revivals for public presentation. Rutenberg has been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College, Lynn University, and Digital Media Arts College, and a guest director at the Annual Theatre Festival in Key West, Florida. In 2004 and again in 2005 he was awarded the New York City Chancellor's "Certificate of Recognition" for Scholarly Achievement. From January to June 2005 he received a State Department Fulbright Grant to Haifa University in Israel as Writer/Artist-in-Residence. In March 2008 at the "First International Conference on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" at Central Connecticut State College in Connecticut, Rutenberg delivered a paper entitled "Teaching and Directing In Israel." Rutenberg is the author of The Oedipus of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1998).