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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. Stop by my blog for thoughts on improv, parenting, sports, and more. Feel free to contact me for scripts, to give me money, or anything else.
Latest News...
  • I will be presenting "Teaching Brecht Through Sketch Comedy" at the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Conference in November!
  • My play Falling Leaves will be produced as part of Reading Theater Projects "Fight or Flight: New Plays on Fear" 
  • My piece "Satire in the Age of Post-Truth" is up on Academic Minute - listen to it or read it HERE!
  • 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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