Bryan Reynolds grew up in Scarsdale, New York, where he attended Heathcote Elementary School and graduated from Scarsdale High School. After a short career racing motorcycles, he attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his bachelor degree in English Literature. He then went on to receive his master's and doctoral degrees in English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. Previously Chancellor's Fellow and Chancellor's Professor, Reynolds is currently Claire Trevor Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, an endowed research chair funded by the Donald Bren Foundation. He has held visiting professorships at the University of London-Queen Mary, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, University of Cologne, University College Utrecht, Goethe University Frankfurt, the University of California-San Diego, the American University of Beirut, the University of Tsukuba, Japan, the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and Alpen Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria; and he has taught seminars and workshops at Deleuze Camp, The Grotowski Institute, Beirut’s Live Lactic Culture, the Gdańsk International Shakespeare Festival, and the Jenin Freedom Theatre, among other academic and arts institutions. He is the Artistic Director of the Amsterdam-based Transversal Theater Company, a director of theater, a performer, and a playwright, whose plays have been produced in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa. His academic books include Intermedial Theater: Performance Philosophy, Transversal Poetics, and the Future of Affect (2017), Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida (2009), Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations (2006), Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future (2004), and Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England (2002). And he is editor of Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts (2015), and Theories, and co-editor of The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive, Volumes I & II (2014, 2011), Critical Responses to Kiran Desai (2009), Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage (2005), and Shakespeare Without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital (2000). As co-general editor of Performance Interventions, a book series in performance studies from Palgrave Macmillan, he shepherded twenty-five books to print. Reynolds is currently writing a book and editing another with Mark LeVine on performance activism in the Middle East and Africa; and he is writing a book on performance aesthetics and extreme sports. He is a contributing author at Freeskier Magazine.