Artist

Erik Ramsey is an Associate Professor of Playwriting in the MFA Playwriting Program and also Head of the BFA Writing for Performance Program at Ohio University. His plays, including Lions Lost, have been produced around the country, and Samuel French and Dramatic Publishing have published several of his works. His two textbooks, The Art of Theatre: Then and Now and The Art of Theatre: A Concise Introduction are in use at over 100 colleges and universities nationwide (third edition, 2013). In 2007, Erik was named a Kennedy Center Faculty Fellow for his work as a new play development specialist; in 2010, he was appointed as Director of Innovation for WordBRIDGE Playwrights’ Laboratory after many years of new play development research. Over the past decade he has been a guest artist and taught master classes in playwriting, new play development and narrative theory in a variety of national and international venues, most recently at the University of Tulsa (2013), the St. Petersburg Academy of Dramatic Arts “New American Dramaturgy” Conference (St. Petersburg, Russia: 2011) and Lubimovka Playwrights Laboratory at Teatr.doc in Moscow, Russia in 2010.