Howard Sherman has been invited to speak at a variety of festivals and conferences and welcomes the opportunity for in-person connections with both professional and aspiring theatre artists, administrators and educators.
He delivered keynotes at the 2019 Texas Educational Theatre Association’s Arts Program Administrators Conference, the 2017 Florida Association of Theatre Educators Conference, the 2015 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 2 Conference, and the 2014 Educational Theatre Association Teacher Conference.
He is frequently invited to present his workshops for theatres and students, “Not On Our Stage You Don’t,” about censorship of academic theatre and measure to prevent or combat efforts to alter or silence student expression through theatre, and “Writing About Theatre,” which challenges participants to express themselves about theatre in new ways, developing theatre artists and educators as voices in the theatrical conversation as interviewers and essayists, as opposed to critics or reviewers.
He has been on panels and led workshops at the KCACTF Region 1, 2 and 3 Festivals in 2016; the 2016 National Thespian Festival; 2015 Dramatists Guild National Conference; the 2015 Broadway Teachers Workshop; and at the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival.
Sherman also offers a unique perspective on regional, not-for-profit, and commercial theatre, having worked at and led a number of the country’s best-known regional theatres, having led the American Theatre Wing for eight years, and through his writing as the U.S. columnist for The Stage newspaper in London since 2012 and associated editor of Stage Directions magazine since 2017.
He has guest taught or lectured at a number of U.S. colleges and universities, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Princeton University, Columbia University, Yale University, Brooklyn College, Emerson College, Bridgewater State University, and University of Connecticut.
Sherman is currently at work on his first book, Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century, to be published in 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing’s Methuen Drama imprint. As a result, he is steeped in the history of this widely produced American classic, as well as modern interpretations that move beyond the original 1938 staging.
If you’re interested in having Howard speak to or work with your class, department, colleagues or association, contact him directly here.
