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.

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Audio Engineer Gary Glor

One Heartbeat Away is provided to The Theater Project by Gail Lou 

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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 Company

https://angelscompany.org/

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing

Hamburg Dramaturgy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Dramaturgy

Come From Away

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_from_Away

Hedda Gabler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedda_Gabler

Dianne Weist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Wiest

Yale Repertory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Repertory_Theatre

Henrik Ibsen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen

The Wild Duck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Duck

Backwards and Forwards by David Ball

https://www.amazon.com/Backwards-Forwards-Technical-Manual-Reading/dp/0809311100

Arthur Miller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller

All My Sons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_My_Sons

Tom Stoppard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard

Sarah Ruhl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Ruhl

Naomi Wallace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wallace

Jennifer Blackmer

https://www.jenniferblackmer.com/