Webster University Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts

Myths and Hymns

Gad Guterman ( he/him ) › Associate Professor, Theatre History › Department Chair › BA, Cornell University

Shakespeare , and has directed productions for Missoula Children’s Theatre, Boston Children’s Theatre, and the John Harms Performing Arts Center, among others. Recent credits include Angels in America (dramaturg, Repertory Theatre St. Louis), The Little Prince (director, Webster University), The Ant and the Grasshopper and Greek Myths: Heroes and Monsters (director, Imaginary Theatre Company), the Love’s Labors Lost and Romeo and Juliet Green Shows (director, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival), and the Briefs Theatre Festival (dramaturg). Gad received the 2020 William T. Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching at Webster University.

› MA, New York University › PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York › At Webster since 2011 › gadguterman95@webster.edu

Gad joined the faculty of the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University in 2011. He is the author of Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law: A Theatre of Undocumentedness . The book considers how contemporary U.S. theatre has presented so-called undocumented immigrants and how legal labels participate in processes of identity. Gad’s essays have appeared in Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review, the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and in the edited collections American Multicultural Identity, Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas, and 50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre . From 2004 to 2011, he served as the Education Director for the Off-Broadway Vineyard Theatre. He is the author of a play for young actors, My Uncle

Bruce Longworth ( he/him ) › Professor, Acting, Voice and Speech

› BA, College of Wooster › MFA, Indiana University › At Webster since 1985 › longwobr@webster.edu

Bruce Longworth has been a faculty member in the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts since 1985. Local and regional directing credits include Alabama Shakespeare Festival, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, Repertory Theatre St. Louis, Lyceum Theatre,

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