The 18th Marfield Prize Judges

Naveen Kumar

Naveen Kumar is a journalist and critic who contributes theater reviews to The New York Times and Variety. His recent work has been published by them.us, The Daily Beast, Vox, Town & Country, and more. He has twice served on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Prior to journalism, he worked in the theatrical literary department at CAA. He earned his BA from Vassar College and an MA in English Literature from Columbia University.  

Peter Marks

Peter Marks joined The Washington Post as its chief drama critic in 2002. Previously, he worked for more than nine years at the New York Times, where he was a drama critic, theater reporter, metro reporter and national correspondent during the 2000 presidential campaign. He was also a feature writer and reporter at Newsday, where he was a member of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting. He started his career at the New Brunswick (N.J.) Home News and also worked for the Star-Ledger and Bergen Record, other New Jersey papers. He has chaired the Pulitzer Prize drama jury four times and is co-author of the book “Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America,” published by St. Martin’s Press. He also co-hosts the theater podcast, "Marks & Vincentelli," on substack.

Tanya Olson

Tanya Olson lives in Silver Spring, Maryland and is a Lecturer in English at UMBC. Her first book, Boyishly, was published by YesYes Books in 2013 and received a 2014 American Book Award. Her second book, Stay, was released By YesYes Books in 2019. In 2010, she won a Discovery/Boston Review prize and she was named a 2011 Lambda Fellow by the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her poem 54 Prince was chosen for inclusion in Best American Poems 2015.