First Name
Bryan
Middle Name
Last Name
Moore
City
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NE
Job Title
Professor/Director of Theatre
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Biography
Bryan Moore (MFA, University of Iowa) is a Professor and Director of Theatre at Concordia University, Nebraska, and is the Past President of LMDA. His 25+ years of theatre experience includes new play and production dramaturgy, applied theatre, directing, technical theatre, and acting. His dramaturgy work includes In the Blood, Glass Menagerie, and new works with the Great Plains Theatre Conference (Omaha), Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Fringe Benefits Theatre with Norma Bowles, and U. of Iowa’s social/cultural outreach group, Darwin Turner Action Theatre, for which he served as director. He has also served as a guest artist for KC/ACTF Regions 5 and 8. His directing work includes Twelfth Night, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, The Diary of Anne Frank, Mary Poppins, The Phantom of the Opera, Marat/Sade, Rabbit Hole, Harvey, Lost in Yonkers, The Pirates of Penzance, Into the Woods, The Winter’s Tale, and The Giver. Locally, he creates theatre performances and workshops with college students for area schools and organizations, and is a board member and director at Olde Glory Theatre in Seward. Bryan served as LMDA’s Vice President of University Relations and later on the University Relations committee. In previous years, he co-organized the annual conference's U-Caucus Hot Topics session and co-edited the online LMDA University Caucus SourceBook, Volumes 4 and 5. Currently, he assists with the online LMDA Guide to Dramaturgy Programs and organizes the conference’s Playwrights Under the Radar session. He wrote the essay, "Pushing Without Shoving: Ethics and Emphasis of Target Participation in TSJ Institute Workshops,” found in Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre," (Bowles and Nadon, co-editors, 2013). For the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), he served as the Dramaturgy Focus Group’s Conference Planner, Focus Group Rep, and, Nominations Chair, and currently serves as VP of Advocacy. Bryan was named one of two winners of the 2020 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Affiliate Intellectual Freedom Awards, after being nominated by the Nebraska English Language Arts Council (NELAC). His research interests include multicultural drama, social/cultural identity, and use of storytelling in drama.
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