Tom Sellar is a writer, dramaturg, and curator and editor of Yale's creative journal Theater. His writing has appeared in publications including 4Columns, Artforum, the New York Times, and The Guardian, and he was a frequent contributor to the Village Voice for 15 years. He has worked as a dramaturg on more than 30 productions, most recently on Annie Dorsen's Prometheus Firebringer at Theatre for a New Audience.
He has curated festivals and programs at organizations including the Prague Quadrennial, Queer Zagreb, American Realness, Prelude (2015 and 2016), and the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue (with Anna Deveare Smith). His critical appreciation of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater was published in the Brooklyn Rail in April 2025, edited by Charles Bernstein.
He is currently writing a series of essays on contingency, transposition and live arts, and creating a live magazine (a project he was working on during his 2018 MacDowell residency), a new time-based experimental space where artists and writers can explore and think through urgent questions together. At MacDowell in 2025, Sellar continued to develop his "live magazine." He also wrote an essay on contingency and live arts, intended as a framing piece to launch the platform.