DJ Sanders

DJ Sanders has been writing plays since 1995. With more than twenty plays penned, his style ranges from drama to comedy, absurdism to realism, suspense-driven to thought-provoking, mainstream to controversial, and classic adaptation to the contemporary American drama.

DJ is a Midwestern playwright having lived in northern Illinois, southern Illinois, central Illinois, and currently St. Louis, Missouri. Sanders has also lived in Barcelona, Spain on two different occasions where he learned to speak both Catalan and Spanish.

DJ Sanders is currently completing coursework for a Master of Arts in Drama at Washington University in St. Louis in preparation for a doctorate in Comparative Literature and Drama (also at Washington University.)

Sanders has also served as a judge for the Kevin Kline Awards, St. Louis's professional theatre recognition organization, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the professional association of playwrights in the United States. Holding a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language and bachelor's degrees in Linguistics and Spanish (all three from the University of Illinois), DJ Sanders spent eight years teaching advanced English skills for numerous institutions including the University of Barcelona, the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and Washington University in St. Louis.

Currently, DJ Sanders teaches for the Performing Arts Department of Washington University and serves as co-editor of the Theatron journal on Theatre, Performance, and Theory. He has also taken up translating plays. Sanders's first translation is that of Catalan playwright Guillem Clua's City of Alcoi Theatre Prize-winning play Skin in Flames. Sanders has been offered a fellowship to travel to Barcelona during the summer of 2006 to begin a new play translation.