Dramaturgy

Playwright Brigid Amos sits down with Timothy Scholl, the Executive Artistic Director of Angels Theatre Company, to discuss what is dramaturgy, how did it start and what role does it play in live theater.Credits:Audio Engineer Gary GlorOne Heartbeat Away is provided to The Theater Project by Gail Lou References:Timothy W. Scholl is a director, dramaturg, and scholar by avocation and an academic administrator by vocation.  As a theatre artist he specializes in new play development, dramaturgy, directing, German theatre history, and dense 18th Century German playwrights. He serves as the Executive Artistic Director for Angels Theatre Company in Lincoln where he also manages the Salon Reading Series.  Selected Directing credits include I Carry Your Heart With Me, Predictor, This Mortal Life Also, Losing the Ring in the River, Killing Crazy, Two Suits, Trailing Colors, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, for which he received a Santa Barbara Independent Award.  Timothy specializes in German Theatre and Drama with a particular emphasis on the production of the German Classics (Deutches Klassiker) in Berlin after 1945.   He currently works as an academic administrator at Purdue University Global.  He was trained at the University of Evansville, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of California Santa Barbara.Angels Theatre Companyhttps://angelscompany.org/Gotthold Ephraim Lessinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthold_Ephraim_LessingHamburg Dramaturgyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_DramaturgyCome From Awayhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_from_AwayHedda Gablerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedda_GablerDianne Weisthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_WiestYale Repertoryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Repertory_TheatreHenrik Ibsenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_IbsenThe Wild Duckhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_DuckBackwards and Forwards by David Ballhttps://www.amazon.com/Backwards-Forwards-Technical-Manual-Reading/dp/0809311100Arthur Millerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_MillerAll My Sonshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_My_SonsTom Stoppardhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_StoppardSarah Ruhlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_RuhlNaomi Wallacehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_WallaceJennifer Blackmerhttps://www.jenniferblackmer.com/