David Savran

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David Savran
Born1950
Alma mater
OccupationDistinguished Professor of Theatre
Employer The Graduate Center, CUNY
Notable work
  • Communists, Cowboys and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
  • Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class

David Savran (born 1950) is a scholar of twentieth and twenty-first century theatre, music theatre, US theatre, popular culture, gender studies, and social theory. He is a Distinguished Professor of Theatre and holds the Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. [1]

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Career

Savran graduated from Kent School in 1968. He holds a B.A. in English from Harvard University and an M.F.A. in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University. [2] Savran earned his Ph.D. in Theatre Arts from Cornell University in 1978 where he studied under Marvin Carlson and Bert O. States. His dissertation was titled The Mask and the Face: Acting Theory of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. [3]

Savran held a position as Professor of English at Brown University from 1988 until 2001, where he taught alongside playwright and scholar Paula Vogel, before he was appointed to Distinguished Professor in the Ph.D. Program of Theatre at The Graduate Center, CUNY. [4]

He served as editor and then co-editor of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre from 2004 until 2013; he continues to serve as the advisory editor of the performance journal. [5] In 2011 and 2012, Savran served on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [6] In 2014, Savran received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Theatre Research. [7]

Savran received a fellowship at the International Center for Interweaving Performance Cultures at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2012 and again in 2014 to work on his most recent book project. His new work theorizes branding as a cultural performance and studies the international traffic in U.S.-branded theatre since the 1990s. Focusing on musical theatre in particular, it analyzes the cultural exchanges between the U.S. and Germany and the U.S. and South Korea. [8]

Books

Reception

Savran's most recent publication, Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class, was the winner of the Joe A. Callaway Award for Best Book in Theater and Drama and the 2011 Kurt Weill Article Prize. [9] The book also received honorable mention for the Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research.

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References

  1. ↑ "David Savran faculty profile". The Graduate Center, CUNY.
  2. ↑ "David Savran profile". LinkedIn. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Savran, David Neil (1978). The Mask and the Face: Acting Theory of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. UMI Dissertations Publishing. ProQuest   302935016.
  4. ↑ "David Savran profile". LinkedIn. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "About page". The Journal of American Drama and Theatre.
  6. ↑ "Drama Winners and Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes.
  7. ↑ "Distinguished Scholar Award recipients". American Society for Theatre Research.
  8. ↑ "David Savran fellows profile". Freie Universität Berlin Department of Philosophy and Humanities International Research Center. Archived from the original on 2015-04-14. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
  9. ↑ "Highbrow/Lowdown product details". University of Michigan Press.
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