Geoff Proehl teaches, dramaturgs, and directs at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Prior to Puget Sound, he taught dramaturgy at Villanova University, where he supervised the work of graduate student dramaturgs on university and professional productions. He is the author a study of American family drama: Coming Home Again: American Family Drama And The Figure Of The Prodigal (Fairleigh Dickinson, 1997). He contributed to and co-edited, with Susan Jonas and Michael Lupu, Dramaturgy in American Theater: A Source Book (Harcourt Brace, 1997). His most recent book Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility: Landscape and Journey with DD Kugler, Mark Lamos, and Michael Lupu (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2008) received the Outstanding Book Award in 2009 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Proehl was president of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas from 1998-2000. In 2016, he was the proud recipient of LMDA's G.E. Lessing Award.

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