First Name
Neil
Middle Name
Kristian
Last Name
Scharnick
City
Country
State or Province
Job Title
Associate Professor
Biography
Dr. Neil Scharnick is an Associate Professor of Theatre and serves as coordinator of Carthage’s one-of-a-kind New Play Initiative, commissioning new works by award-winning playwrights and premiering them at Carthage.
Scharnick regularly teaches Play Reading and Analysis and the cycle of theatre history courses, in addition to creating and frequently leading the Ensemble and Experimental Theatre course. Dr. Scharnick directs one production each season, with past Carthage productions including Brian Friel’s Translations; David Auburn’s Proof; G.B. Shaw’s Arms and the Man, Jean-Claude van Itallie and Joseph Chaikin’s The Serpent; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Mohan Rakesh’s One Day in the Season of Rain (new authorized translation by Aparna Dharwadker and Vinay Dharwadker for the New Play Initiative); Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Martin Maguire’s A Clamour of Rooks (New Play Initiative, premiered at Smock Alley in Dublin, Ireland); Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Caridad Svich’s The Breath of Stars (New Play Initiative, presented at CrisisArt Festival, Arezzo, Italy, 2016); John Dryden’s Marriage à la Mode; Into the Woods, Flora, the Red Menace, and The Handbook by Laura Schellhardt (New Play Initiative), and Calderón's Life is a Dream.
Scharnick remains engaged with theatres in Milwaukee and Chicago. He has served as a reader for both the the Milwaukee and the Wisconsin (Madison) Young Playwrights Festivals. He has been the pre-show lecturer at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, and has served as both director and dramaturg for the Wisconsin Wrights New Play Project--most recently for Sarah Gubbins' "The Kid Thing." He has also been a CrisisArt Collective member (Arezzo, Italy) and a nominator for the Kilroys List.
Dr. Scharnick has presented his work at several conferences, including the annual conferences of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), the Association for Asian Performance (AAP), and at UW-Madison’s Center for Early Modern Studies. He is certified through Intimacy Directors and Choreographers (IDC), and has also been a Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) Associate.
Scharnick regularly teaches Play Reading and Analysis and the cycle of theatre history courses, in addition to creating and frequently leading the Ensemble and Experimental Theatre course. Dr. Scharnick directs one production each season, with past Carthage productions including Brian Friel’s Translations; David Auburn’s Proof; G.B. Shaw’s Arms and the Man, Jean-Claude van Itallie and Joseph Chaikin’s The Serpent; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Mohan Rakesh’s One Day in the Season of Rain (new authorized translation by Aparna Dharwadker and Vinay Dharwadker for the New Play Initiative); Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Martin Maguire’s A Clamour of Rooks (New Play Initiative, premiered at Smock Alley in Dublin, Ireland); Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Caridad Svich’s The Breath of Stars (New Play Initiative, presented at CrisisArt Festival, Arezzo, Italy, 2016); John Dryden’s Marriage à la Mode; Into the Woods, Flora, the Red Menace, and The Handbook by Laura Schellhardt (New Play Initiative), and Calderón's Life is a Dream.
Scharnick remains engaged with theatres in Milwaukee and Chicago. He has served as a reader for both the the Milwaukee and the Wisconsin (Madison) Young Playwrights Festivals. He has been the pre-show lecturer at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, and has served as both director and dramaturg for the Wisconsin Wrights New Play Project--most recently for Sarah Gubbins' "The Kid Thing." He has also been a CrisisArt Collective member (Arezzo, Italy) and a nominator for the Kilroys List.
Dr. Scharnick has presented his work at several conferences, including the annual conferences of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), the Association for Asian Performance (AAP), and at UW-Madison’s Center for Early Modern Studies. He is certified through Intimacy Directors and Choreographers (IDC), and has also been a Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) Associate.
Areas of Expertise
Language(s) spoken
English
Interested in freelance opportunities
Yes