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Playwright to Visit WIU Campus Sept. 23-27

September 21, 2018

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MACOMB, IL – Playwright Tim Slover will be on the Western Illinois University campus Sunday-Thursday, Sept. 23-27.

Slover will be in rehearsal each evening with the cast and crew of "March Tale," and will teach the THEA 409G class on playwriting at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25 in Salle Hall, room 232. He will also be the featured speaker during a Department of Theatre and Dance question and answer session at noon Wednesday, Sept. 26 in Hainline Theatre.

Slover is a professor in the Theatre Studies program at the University of Utah, where he teaches courses in playwriting and dramatic literature. He also directs the Theatre, Fine Arts and Humanities in London Learning Abroad Program and leads the Go Learn: London on Stage continuing education tour.

With his work produced off-Broadway and in professional regional and university theatres across the United States, Canada and the UK, he also has numerous writing awards, including the grand prize at the 65th annual Writers Digest Writers Awards; the Christopher Brian Wolk Award for Playwriting Excellence; a Cine Golden Eagle; a Freedoms Foundation George Washington Honor Medal; and a Hopwood Award for Best Play. He was also a finalist for a Television Arts and Sciences Community Service Emmy.

His plays are published by Samuel French, Inc., and Encore Performance Publishing. His writing has also appeared in the National Biography of American Theatre, Sunstone Magazine, and been published by Signature Books and Silverleaf Press.

For more information about the WIU Department of Theatre and Dance, visit wiu.edu/theatre.

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