Jean Graham-Jones is an actor, director, translator, and scholar of Argentine theatre based in New York City.
Jean Graham-Jones is the Lucille Lortel Professor of Theatre, Emerita, at the CUNY Graduate Center. An actor, director, and translator as well as scholar of Argentine theatre and performance, she has published Exorcising History: Argentine Theater under Dictatorship and Evita, Inevitably: Performing Argentina’s Female Icons Before and After Eva Perón in addition to multiple collections of her translations of plays by Argentine artist: Reason Obscured: Nine Plays by Ricardo Monti, BAiT: Buenos Aires in Translation, and Timbre 4: Two Plays by Claudio Tolcachir. In 2019 she published Lola Arias: Re-enacting Life, an edited volume of performance scripts, interviews, and other texts on the work of Buenos Aires theatre artist Lola Arias, and her monograph Contemporary Performance Translation: Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Stage will be published this fall.