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Allen S. Weiss is the author and editor of over forty volumes in the fields of art history, performance theory, landscape architecture, gastronomy, sound art and experimental theater. Among his theoretical works are The Aesthetics of Excess (SUNY); Phantasmic Radio (Duke); Breathless: Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia (Wesleyan); Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime (SUNY); Varieties of Audio Mimesis: Musical Evocations of Landscape (Errant Bodies). His creative work includes Theater of the Ears (a play for electronic marionette and taped voice based on the writings of Valère Novarina), which premiered at CalArts ended its tour at the Avignon Off Festival; Danse Macabre (a marionette theater for the dolls of Michel Nedjar), which premiered as part of the Poupées exhibition that he curated at the Halle Saint Pierre in Paris, and was reprised at the In Transit festival at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and the Centre Pompidou Metz; and a novel, Le livre bouffon (Le Seuil). His radio productions include L’Indomptable (with Gregory Whitehead) for France Culture; the Hörspiel Glissando for the Klangkunst program of Deutschlandfunk Kultur; and Carmignano, an essay on wine for Radio Papesse in Florence. He produced and directed Poupées des ténèbres / Dolls of Darkness, a documentary film about the dolls of Michel Nedjar and the Holocaust, and most recently published Unpacking My Library, or, The Autobiography of Teddy (K. Verlag), which he ghost wrote for his Teddy bear. He is Distinguished Teacher in the departments of Performance Studies and Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.