Art is associate professor of theatre history, dramatic literature, and dramaturgy, Head of the Dramaturgy Program, and Artistic Director of the New Play Festival. From 1997 to 2026, he served as Head or Co-Head of the Playwrights Workshop. 

Professor Borreca has worked as a dramaturg with such leading theatre artists as Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka, Theodora Skipitares, David Gothard, Naomi Wallace, and Lisa Schlesinger, at such theatres as the Yale Repertory Theatre, LaMama ETC, Oxford Stage Company, and Theatre Project Tokyo.  A longtime member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), he contributed essays to the earliest collections on dramaturgy, Dramaturgy in American Theatre and What is Dramaturgy?  His 2021 essay, “Rethinking Difference,” was featured in Dramaturging the Phoenix, LMDA’s online forum exploring the challenges facing theatre artists and educators in the post-COVID world.

Professor Borreca has also published on modern British and American drama, including essays on Tony Kushner in Approaching the Millennium and on Kushner and Harold Pinter in The Norton Anthology of Drama, of which he was a Consulting Editor. His 2025 presentation on “The Legacy of Edward Bond,” given at CUNY’s Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, can be viewed at https://howlround.com/happenings/legacy-edward-bond