Neil Blackadder is a German to English translator and the author of “Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience.” In 2011, Blackadder was awarded a fellowship from the Howard Foundation (Brown University) and a PEN Translation Fund Grant to translate plays by Lukas Bärfuss. He has twice held residencies at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and Writers Omi at Ledig House. His work has often been supported by the Goethe-Institut, as well as by the Consulate General of Switzerland and the Austrian Cultural Forum. Blackadder has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton, and was a professor of theater at Duke University and Knox College.