Art Horowitz
Theatre History/Playwriting
arthur.horowitz@pomona.edu
909-607-1372

Art Horowitz is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, teaching playwriting, dramaturgy and theatre history. This current semester he is also teaching a course in Shakespeare in Performance. Art is a professional dramaturge, director and actor. He played Lord Montague in the Pomona College production of Romeo and Juliet last spring. Previously, he directed a production of Agamemnon at CalArts and staged readings of The Laramie Project and The Rimers of Eldritch at UC Santa Barbara. Art is the literary manager/ dramaturge for Unknown Theater in Los Angeles, and served as dramaturge on their current production of J.B. Priestley’s Johnson Over Jordan. Recent dramaturgy work include Machinal (Blank the Dog Productions), Euripides’ Electra (A Noise Within), Murder in the Cathedral, Othello, and Athol Fugard’s Hello and Goodbye (Knightsbridge Theatre) and King Henry V: Crispian’s Day at the Boar’s Head and The Duchess of Malfi (CalArts). His book “Prospero’s ‘True Preservers’: Peter Brook, Yukio Ninagawa, and Giorgio Strehler - Twentieth Century Directors Approach Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST” was published in 2004 by the University of Delaware Press. His writing on theatre and performance has appeared in Contemporary Dramatists, The Reference Guide to American Literature, New England Theatre Journal, The Journal of Beckett Studies, Theatre Journal, The Independent Shavian, Ibsen News and Comment and Western European Stages. Art received his doctorate in dramatic art from the University of California, Davis, and has previously taught at the California Institute of the Arts, UC Santa Barbara, and Marymount Manhattan College.