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Welcome! I'm a theatre professor, author, playwright, improviser, and all around swell fellow. Check out info on my plays, directing, teaching, and scholarly work (you know you want to). Or get more info on my books Long Form Improv & American Comedy - The Harold and The Comedy Improv Handbook. Feel free to contact me for scripts, to give me money, or anything else.
Latest News...
  • I have been nominated for the 2017-18 Dr. Henry P. and M. Paige Laughlin Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching!
  • My latest TYA play The Adventures of TV Cat ​will premiere in May with The Children's Theatre of Albright!
  • My short play Hot Socks ​will be presented as part of the Dramatists Play Lab at the Mid America Theatre Conference!
  • I was recently named an Affiliated Writer with The Playwrights' Center!
  • Theatre Journal just released a book review for Long Form Improvisation & American Comedy: The Harold, calling it "among the top theoretical works on improvisation." 
  • Check out my Amazon Author Page and buy all of your favorite plays and books...and then a few of mine in one spot - HERE!
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