Thomas Hischak is an internationally recognized author and teacher in the Performing He is the author of over thirty non-fiction books about theatre, film, and popular music, including The Oxford Companion to the American Musical. He is also the author of over fifty published plays. Hischak is a Fulbright scholar who has taught and directed in Greece, Lithuania, and Turkey. From 1983 to 2015 he was Professor of Theatre at the State University of New York at Cortland where he has received such honors as the 2004 SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity and the 2010 SUNY Outstanding Achievement in Research Award. Four of his books have been cited as Outstanding Non-fiction Books by the American Library Association and The Oxford Companion to the American Musical was cited as an Outstanding Reference Work by the New York City Public Library in 2008. His playwriting awards include the Stanley Drama Award and the Julie Harris Playwriting Award. Hischak is currently an Adjunct Professor teaching film and theatre at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.
