Samuel Leiter serves as editor of the Asian Theatre Journal. His most recent books include New Kabuki Encyclopedia: A Revised Adaptation of "Kabuki Jiten" (Greenwood Press, 1997), Zeami and the No Theatre in the World (co-edited with Benito Ortolani, CASTA, 1998), his translation/adaptation of Faubion Bowers: The Man Who Saved Kabuki (University of Hawaii Press, 2001), A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance (M.E. Sharpe, 2002), and the four-volume Kabuki Plays On Stage series(co-edited with James R. Brandon, University of Hawaii Press, 2002-2003.)