Freddie Rokem is professor emeritus in the Department of Theater at Tel Aviv University and is currently the Wiegeland Visiting Professor of Theater & Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. His major books are Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre (2000) and Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance (2010). The Oslo Diaries was screened at the 2018 Sundance Festival and won the Best Documentary Script Award at the recent Jerusalem Film Festival.