Iris Dorbian is a former actress turned business journalist/blogger. Her articles have appeared in a wide number of outlets that include the Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, Thomson Reuters, Crain's NY Business, Business Insider, Venture Capital Journal, Buyouts, Investopedia.com, DMNews, CFO.com, Playbill, Backstage, Theatermania, Dance Magazine, Live Design, Media Industry Newsletter and PR News. From 1999 to 2007, Iris was the editor-in-chief of Stage Directions. She is the author of “Great Producers: Visionaries of the American Theater," (Allworth Press); "An Epiphany in Lilacs: In the Aftermath of the Camps" (original publisher: Mazo Publishers) and "Sentenced to Shakespeare" (Sunbury Press/Milford House Press). Her personal essays have been featured in HBO's "Inspiration Room," Blue Lyra Review, B O D Y, Embodied Effigies, Jewish Literary Journal, Skirt! Diverse Voices Quarterly and Gothesque Magazine. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.