Jesse Green is the chief theater critic for The New York Times. From 2013 to 2017 he was the theater critic for New York magazine. Before that he wrote about theater, culture, and broader topics for New York, The Times and many other publications. He is the author of a novel, "O Beautiful," and of "The Velveteen Father: An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood," a memoir. "Shy," written with and about Mary Rodgers Guettel, the pioneering musical theater doyenne, will be published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Before turning to writing, Green worked in the theater as a gopher, a copyist, and a musical coordinator on Broadway shows. With the novelist Meg Wolitzer, he has also written cryptic crosswords and other puzzles for several magazines. He is a graduate of Yale College, with a degree in English and Theater.