Alan Armstrong

Alan Armstrong

(he/him/his)

Production Dramaturg, As You Like It

In 11 seasons at OSF: Research dramaturg, Henry IV, Part One; Henry IV, Part Two; production dramaturg, Henry V; Great Expectations; Pericles; Henry V; Henry IV, Parts One and Two; Hamlet; Henry VIII; Coriolanus; King John; literary consultant, Wit; faculty, OSF Institute, 1994–97.

Other credits: Dramaturg, Ellen McLaughlin’s The Adventures of Pericles. Teaching: Professor of humanities and past director, Center for Shakespeare Studies, Southern Oregon University; director, “Shakespeare in Ashland: Teaching from Performance,” NEH Institutes for school teachers; Mary Baldwin College, American Shakespeare Center, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Hamilton College, Kirkland College, Cornell University, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Southampton (England).

Publications: Co-author, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Actors: Telling the Story; editor, Literature and History; reviewer, Shakespeare Bulletin; numerous essays on doubling in Shakespeare’s plays; interviews of OSF actors Robin Goodrin Nordli and Dan Donohue in American Players of Shakespeare.

Education: PhD, Cornell University (Woodrow Wilson Fellow); BA, Ohio Wesleyan University.