Michael Evenden
Theater Studies
Associate Professor
Theater Emory
Resident Dramaturg
Rich Building, Room 221
404-727-4662
Michael Evenden received his DFA in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at the Yale School of Drama, where he was also a faculty member in the School of Music. He has variously taught acting, directing, dramatic history, literature, and criticism at Brigham Young University, Allegheny College, Trinity University, and Cornell University. He came to Emory in 1987 as a member of the Theater Studies faculty and resident dramaturg at Theater Emory. He has been an assistant literary manager of the Yale Repertory Theater, the literary manager of the Promised Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake City, and in Atlanta has been a production dramaturg for the Alliance Theater (August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia), the Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Actors Express (world premiere of Robert Schenkkan’s Handler, after development at Theater Emory’s Brave New Works Festival), and Theater Gael. He has also served as a consultant dramaturg hired by actors Dianne Wiest and Harris Yulin for projects on and off Broadway. At Theater Emory, in addition to production dramaturgy, he has acted in and directed occasional projects, has devised experimental performances integrating dramatic, poetic, and historical materials, and has happily participated in the development of new plays by Frank Manley, Steve Murray, Robert Schenkkan, and David Kranes. He is the author of a number of scholarly articles and of a book, Silence and Selfhood: The Desire of Order in Mozart’s Magic Flute.
