Thornton Wilder is an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works, exploring the connection between the commonplace and cosmic dimensions of human experience, continue to be read and produced around the world. His Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, as did two of his four full-length dramas, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). Wilder's Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly! He also enjoyed enormous success with many other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching, acting, opera, and film. His screenplay for Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) remains a classic psychological thriller to this day. Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literature.

1955년 7월 4일 서울 출생. 연세대학교 대학원 불어불문학 박사과정 졸업. 순천향대 공연영상미디어학부 교수이다. 연세대학교에서 프랑스 현대희곡 연구로 석 · 박사 학위를 받았다. 한국연극교육학회 회장, 연극교육위원회 위원장, 한국문화예술교육학회 회장, 극단 노을 대표 등을 맡고 있다. 대표 저서로 '배우의 화술', '한국의 예술 소비자' 등이 있고, 소오톤 와일더의 '우리 읍내' 등 다수의 희곡을 번역 및 연출하였다.