Sonja Arsham Kuftinec is a Professor of Theatre at the University of Minnesota. She has created and published widely on community-based theatre and theatre as a technique of conflict transformation in the Balkans and Middle East including Theatre, Facilitation and Nation Formation in the Balkans and Middle East (Palgrave, 2009). Her current research focuses on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival under the tenure of Artistic Director Bill Rauch, the cofounder of Cornerstone Theater.