Valleri Robinson

Valleri J. Robinson is author of “Belarusian Theatre” and the “2020 Pro-Democracy Protests: Documenting the Resistance and Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America.” She is the Department Head and Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is an Alumni Fellow of the Public Fellows Op-Ed Project.

2 Articles Published | Follow:

Ukrainian President Zelensky’s Improvisational Leadership

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered us a masterclass in improvisational leadership. Time and again, especially since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 2022, he’s used his sophisticated skills as an actor to raise support for his country and to best his rivals. In the Oval Office on Friday, he showed us how to outperform a pair of bullies.

Performing complicity

I was reading Navalny’s new memoir “Patriot” while flying to New York to see the…