Modern Mask Editors

Michael Peter Bolus - Editor-In-Chief Michael Peter Bolus received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University  of Southern California, his Masters degree in Creative Writing from Boston University, and his Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Pound of Flesh, his most recent stage play, received its world premiere at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, and was produced under his direction at both the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival, the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, and the Taos Center for the Performing Arts. His plays Attic People, Hats Canes Trunks Trains, West of Canaan, Shaman in the House, and Ex Machina, have been seen in productions, workshops and readings throughout the country. In 1994, Michael was awarded a Playwriting Fellowship from the Boston Playwrights' Theatre where he spent a year in-residence, working closely with 1992 Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott as Playwright, Director and Dramaturg. His articles, interviews, and criticism have been published or will soon appear in the scholarly journals, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Slavic and East European Performance, and his poetry and prose were featured in the e.e. cummings Pre-Centennial Tribute. Michael has directed numerous plays in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Washington D.C., including works by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Beckett, Sartre, and Shepard. As an actor, he has been seen on stage as Trigorin in The Seagull (directed by Anna Deavere Smith), Nelson in Sunshine (directed by Joe Brancato), and in a variety of roles in such plays as The Country Wife, The Taming of the Shrew, Under Milkwood, The Imaginary Invalid, The Cherry Orchard, and True West, to name just a few. His television credits include featured and co-starring roles in "Law and Order," "Law and Order: SVU," "Law and Order: Criminal Intent," "Strong Medicine," "Swift Justice," and Sidney Lumet's "100 Centre Street." Among his film credits are featured roles in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown," "Bleach" (1998 Sundance Film Festival) and "Bury the Evidence" (Grand Jury Prize Winner- 1999 MicroCineFest, Baltimore). He was seen this past summer at the Edinburgh Festival in Australian playwright Stephen Sewell's internationally acclaimed play Myth, Propaganda, and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America.             Michael has also taught Fiction, Poetry and Playwriting at Boston University, English at City College of New York, Theatre History and Acting at both Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges in New York City, and various seminars and workshops as Guest Artist at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He currently teaches Ancient Greek Theatre and Introduction to Theatre Studies at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts. His recently completed manuscript, Sacred Play: Parable, Morality, Myth, is a literary analysis of the plays and libretti of the English poet W.H. Auden.

Kamyar Atabai - Music Editor Kamyar Atabai is a graduate of Columbia University and the Yale School of Drama, and also studied at Cambridge University. Theater work in New York includes his own play The Truffle Plantation for the Hammerheads Theatre Company, Anouilh & Aurenche's Humulus the Mute for the Lincoln Center Directors' Lab at HERE, and a series of staged readings at the Austrian Cultural Forum. He has assisted Julie Taymor on The Green Bird (Theatre for a New Audience/LaJolla Playhouse/Broadway) as well as Juan DariÈn (Lincoln Center Theater), and Mohammad Ghaffari on The Ta'ziyeh Cycle at the Lincoln Center Festival. He has taught at Catholic University of America, Eugene Lang College at the New School, and City College. In London, he was Artistic Director of Truffle Theatre Company, for which he translated and directed Apollinaire’s The Breasts of Tiresias.

Devin Delliquanti - Managing Editor & Film Editor Devin Delliquanti received his BFA in Drama and BA in English and American Literature from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in January, 2006. He was awarded the 2005 J.S. Seidman Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a student in the Tisch Drama Department for artistic and academic achievement. Devin also won the Daniel Walden Student Paper competition at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association conference with his essay, “Characters-in-Chief: The Presidential Ensemble of George W. Bush after 9/11,” which has been published in the annual academic journal, The Mid-Atlantic Almanack. He has previously written on topics ranging from the role of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings in the Cold War, to historical accuracy in film depictions of Cleopatra, to a comparison of linguistic styles in the revolutionary writings of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson. His professional theatre training through NYU consisted of three and a half years of study at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, where he performed in such plays as Dancing at Lughnasa (Michael), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon), and Reckless (Lloyd). In addition to acting and writing, Devin is an avid surfer and can often be found praying for waves along the coast of New Jersey.

Julia Kaziewicz - Art & Photography Editor Julia Kaziewicz is a first year American Studies Ph.D. student at The College of William & Mary.  After completing her BA in English at New York University, she continued on at NYU to earn an MA in English and American Literature.  As an undergraduate, she minored in Art History, and continued work in the field by incorporating her interest in the visual arts into her graduate work.

Deirdre O'Leary - Theatre Editor Deirdre O'Leary is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Hofstra University. She also teaches Irish and British drama at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She received her Ph.D. in theatre from the CUNY Graduate Center. She has published articles and reviews in Modern Irish Studies, Theatre Journal, New England Theatre Journal, Eugene O'Neill Review and Western European Stages. Her research interests include contemporary Irish and Northern Irish Drama, performance art and postcolonial drama.

Mythili Rao - Literature Editor Mythili Rao is a freelance journalist living in New York.