As a child, Sean Curran started out learning Irish Step dancing in Boston, MA. He went on to perform with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, receiving a Bessie Award for his performance in Secret Pastures. Curran has also performed in the off-broadway show Stomp, and his choreography has b
Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their rele
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. She is reticent about her private life; the biography published in current editions