Bryan Doerries is a New York–based writer, director, and translator who currently serves as the Artistic Director of Theater of War Productions, a company that presents dramatic readings of seminal plays and texts to frame community conversations about pressing issues of public health and social justice. A self-described evangelist for ancient stories and their relevance to our lives today, Doerries uses age-old approaches to help individuals and communities heal from trauma and loss. Doerries’s books include ‘The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today’ (Knopf), ‘The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan’ (Pantheon), ‘All That You’ve Seen Here Is God’ (Vintage), and ‘Oedipus Trilogy’ (forthcoming from Vintage). Among his awards, he has received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Kenyon College and in March 2017 he was named Public Artist in Residence for the City of New York.