Ellen Perecman holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Graduate-Center CUNY. She has published her research in neurolinguistics in scholarly journals and books and has edited several volumes containing her work as well as the work of other researchers in the fields of neurology, neurolinguistics and the social sciences. Ellen trained as an actor with Julie Bovasso and Vivian Matalon and served as Producing Artistic Director of New Worlds Theatre Project, a company she founded to produce her English translations of neglected Yiddish plays. Her book, Ten Yiddish Plays in Translation, was published in 2020 and includes translations of plays by Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, I.D. Berkowitz, Peretz Hirshbein, H. Leivick and David Pinski. She is a native speaker of Yiddish. Ellen has translated Peretz Hirshbein’s memoir, “In the Course of Life,” which will be published in 2026.