Art Borreca, DFA, MFA, BA

Associate Professor
Head of Dramaturgy
Co-Head of Playwrights Workshop
Biography

Art is associate professor of dramaturgy, dramatic literature, and theatre history, co-head of the Playwrights Workshop, and head of the dramaturgy program. He also serves as artistic director of the department’s annual New Play Festival. 

Professor Borreca has worked as a dramaturg with a number of leading theatre artists, including Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka, Theodora Skipitares, David Gothard, Naomi Wallace, and Lisa Schlesinger in such venues as the Yale Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, LaMama ETC, Oxford Stage Company, Theatre Project Tokyo, and the Department of Theatre Arts’s Partnership-in-the-Arts Program. 

His articles and reviews have appeared in TDR, Modern Drama, and Theatre Journal; as well as in several books, including Dramaturgy in American Theatre, What is Dramaturgy?, Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America, and The Norton Anthology of Drama.  Professor Borreca’s recent presentation on The Legacy of Edward Bond, given at CUNY’s Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, can be viewed at https://howlround.com/happenings/legacy-edward-bond

Research areas
  • Dramaturgy
  • Playwriting
Portrait of Art Borreca, DFA, MFA, BA
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Education
DFA, Yale University, School of Drama
MFA, Yale University, School of Drama
BA, Oberlin College
Contact Information
Address

University of Iowa
126 Theatre Building (TB)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States