Kenneth Cavander is an award-winning writer, producer and director whose work has been widely performed in the United States and Britain, including on Broadway, at the Yale Repertory Theater and by the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was born in Prague and fled Czechoslovakia to Britain before World War II and was educated at Oxford. As a US-based fellow from 1973 to 1976, he examined theater and “the origin and role of myth as a continuing force in society and in our individual lives” at a time when the country was reckoning with the aftermath of Watergate, the Vietnam War and youth and sexual revolutions.