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Alan Armstrong

Dramaturg, Hamlet, Henry IV, Part One

In four seasons at OSF: dramaturg, Henry VIII, Coriolanus, King John; literary consultant, Wit.


Other credits: Teaching: Faculty, OSF Institute, 1994-1997;
professor of humanities and past director, Center for Shakespeare Studies, Southern Oregon University; director, "Shakespeare in Ashland: Teaching from Performance," NEH Institute for school teachers; senior scholar, Shakespeare's Playhouses: Inside and Out, NEH Institute for college and university professors at the American Shakespeare Center and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (London); Hamilton College, Kirkland College, Cornell University, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Southampton (England). Publications: editor, Literature and History (Manchester University Press); reviewer, Shakespeare Bulletin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990-present); Unfamiliar Shakespeare in Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide (Oxford University Press, 2003); "What is Become of Bushy? Where is Green?" in Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage (Susquehanna University Press, 2006); interviews of OSF actors Robin Goodrin Nordli and Dan Donohue in American Players of Shakespeare (University of Delaware Press, 2006).

Education: PhD, Cornell University (Woodrow Wilson Fellow); BA, Ohio Wesleyan University.

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Full time: 325
Part time: 175
Average length of service: 8 years
Volunteers: 600

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