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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...
  • My latest article, "Sketch Comedy in the Age of Trump" was just published by Theatre/Practice - read it HERE!
  • I have been nominated for the 2017-18 Dr. Henry P. and M. Paige Laughlin Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching!
  • My TYA play Gustav - The Goose Who Wouldn't Fly ​will be published with Heuer Publishing!
  • I have been awarded a Mellon Foundation funded Albright Creative Research Experience grant to study the history and practice of satiric fake news!
  • 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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