Jordan Schildcrout is Professor of Theatre & Performance at Purchase College (SUNY) and the author of In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway’s Hit Plays and Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater. He has published scholarly articles on a range of subjects, including the Stonewall Riots, queer futurity, “spinster” detectives, and the Muppets. He is also the co-editor of 50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre.

As a dramaturg and literary manager, Jordan worked with Manhattan Theatre Club, Denver Center Theatre Company, Adobe Theatre Company, and the Drama Desk-nominated Wash & Fold Theatre Project, which he co-founded. Other credits as a dramaturg include Pride House (TOSOS), Mud (Purchase College), Veritas (The Representatives), and And Baby Makes Seven (New Ohio).

Jordan earned his Ph.D. in Theatre from the CUNY Graduate Center and previously taught at Ohio University.