Stuart Spencer
BA, Lawrence University. Author of numerous plays performed in New York and around the country, including Resident Alien (Broadway Play Publishing). Other plays include In the Western Garden (Broadway Play Publishing), Blue Stars (Best American Short Plays of 19931994), and Sudden Devotion (Broadway Play Publishing). A playwriting textbook, The Playwright’s Guidebook, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2002. Recent plays are Alabaster City, commissioned by South Coast Rep, and Judy Garland Died for Your Sins. Former literary manager of Ensemble Studio Theatre; fellow, the Edward Albee Foundation; member, Dramatist Guild. SLC, 1991–
Undergraduate discipline: Theatre
Graduate program: MFA Theatre Program
Courses taught in Theatre
2012-2013
- History and Histrionics
- Playwright’s Workshop
- Playwriting Techniques
- Something Great is Coming: The American Musical
