Bob Scanlan Email & Phone Number

Belmont, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Artistic Director and President of the Board

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Principal Lecture Courses: Dramatic Literature from the Greeks to Ibsen; American Drama Since 1945; Principles of Dramaturgy; The Idea of a TheatrePrincipal Seminars: The Drama and Prose of Samuel Beckett; The Plot-Bead Diagram and its Uses; Sex Wars: Betrayal and Infidelity in the Theatre; Restoration and 18th Century British Comedy.Also offered: Acting; Directing; Collaboration Seminar (Playwrights, Dramaturgs and Directors); Playwriting 47 (in honor of George Pierce Baker).

At the American Repertory Theatre, I fulfilled the duties of the Production Dramaturg on forty-one productions, working in “full immersion” collaboration with directors, actors, designers and playwrights, including the following: Eugene Ionesco (who gave me permission to re-work the translation of his plays), Derek Walcott, David Lodge, Edward Gorey, Ronald Ribman, Carol Mack, Philip Glass, Stuart Greenman, Han Ong, David Rabe, David Mamet, Robert Brustein and Arnold Weinstein, Paula Vogel, Paul Rudnick, Gideon Lester. Directors: Robert Wilson, Anne Bogart, Andrei Belgrader, Andrei Serban, David Wheeler, Adrian Hall, Ron Daniels, Francesca Zambello, Joe Dowling, David Gordon, Marcus Stern, François Rochaix, and Bob McGrath. During these ART years, in addition to my own directing work (at ART, American regional theatres, and overseas) I directed the Dramaturgy and Playwriting Programs of the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University, taught courses and graduate seminars, advised and supervised 30 student productions, published 32 newsletters for the A.R.T., wrote over 50 articles, supervised assigned dramaturgs on 22 or more A.R.T. productions, gave frequent public lectures. I served as president of the International Samuel Beckett Society (1994-96) and president of the Poets’ Theatre (1995-97). I also invited and hosted some 70 national scholars and writers to the A.R.T. Symposium series under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which I administered. My NEH invitees included: David Bevington, Rosette Lamont, Stephen Greenblatt, Errol Hill, Michael Holroyd, Budd Schulberg, Neal Gabler, Austin Quigley, Jan Kott, Anne Paolucci, Daniel Aaron, Christopher Ricks, Harold Bloom, Richard Gilman, John Lahr, Marjorie Garber, Emily Vermeule, Eugene Goodheart, Daniel Aaron, Gregory Nagy, Coppelia Kahn, Enoch Brater, Thomas Postlewaite, Morris Dickstein, Tim Page, Seamus Heaney, and many others.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Comparative Literature