Byron Woods, a member of the HowlRound NewCrit Critics Project, is entering his 20th year as an award-winning arts journalist and critic based in the Triangle region of North Carolina. In addition to his work as contributing editor at Durham’s INDY Week (formerly the Independent Weekly), he has covered the area's theater and dance for Raleigh's News & Observer, and national publications including Back Stage, Dance Magazine, Danceinsider.com, InTheater and the Village Voice. A recipient of two NEA fellowships in arts criticism and a National Critics Institute scholarship at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Woods has been honored by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the NC Press Association, and has served five times as critic-in-residence and clinician in various regions of the Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival.