Eric Colleary is the Cline Curator for Theatre and the Performing Arts at the Harry Ransom Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Theatre Historiography from the University of Minnesota. Prior to coming to the University of Texas at Austin, he was a visiting professor in Theatre and Dance at Macalester College in Saint Paul. In his current position with the Ransom Center, Dr. Colleary is responsible for the interpretation and management of the center’s vast performing arts holdings. The Ransom Center has extensive holdings of major American and British dramatists including David Hare, Lillian Hellman, Adrienne Kennedy, Terrence McNally, Arthur Miller, George Bernard Shaw, Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, and Tennessee Williams, among others. Performer archives include Stella Adler, Edith Evans, and Spalding Gray. Within these archives are manuscripts, correspondence, notes, photographs, and performance programs and ephemera. The performing arts collections contain materials documenting a wide variety of performance genres in the United Kingdom and America. The collections feature holdings in theater, dance, costume and scenic design, opera, and popular entertainments, such as the circus, vaudeville, minstrel shows, puppetry, and magic. The creative process, from concept and staging to publication and revival, constitutes the primary focus of these collections.