Shari Perkins is a freelance dramaturg and editor. She earned an MFA in Dramaturgy from the joint program of the ART Institute at Harvard University and the Moscow Art Theatre School. At ART, Shari provided dramaturgy for productions ranging from Euripides' The Bacchae to the Pulitzer Prize-nominated rock opera Orpheus X. Her work has been seen in the United States in Boston, Providence, and New York, and internationally in Hong Kong, Edinburgh, and Moscow. Shari wrote her master’s thesis at Hunter College on the literary adaptation and the chernukha aesthetic in contemporary Russian drama. She served as the Senior Editorial Advisor for Slavic and East European Performance, spent a year cataloguing Russian avant-garde ephemera for a rare bookseller, and lived in Moscow immersing herself in the language and theatre culture. Shari worked on the US premieres of Kirill Serebrennikov’s productions of Playing the Victim and Zoya’s Apartment. Recently, she served as the language and technical advisor for Serebrennikov’s first English-language film, the upcoming Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie.