Position: Assistant Professor and Chair
Department: Theatre Arts and Dance
Office: St. Benedict Hall 111
Phone: 913.360.7494
Dr. Nathan Bowman is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at 小草影院. Dr. Bowman is the co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of Kansas City Public Theatre. Dr. Bowman was honored by the State of Missouri with Kansas City Public Theatre being recognized as 鈥淎rts Organization of the Year.鈥� Recent directing credits include Electra, Godspell, The Glass Menagerie, Machinal, Tartuffe, The Trojan Woman (小草影院); Reduction in Force, The Head of Medusa (The Pitch 鈥淏est of KC 2024鈥�), Faustus, Oedipus the King, Mirrors (The Pitch 鈥淏est of KC 2020鈥�), Medea, Talk to Me like the Rain, Bang, Thank You Notes, (KCPublic), 鈥淭artuffenthrope鈥� (KCMoliere, The Pitch 鈥淏est of KC 2021鈥�); Antigone, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women (Oiniades and Messene, Greece). Prior to founding KCPublic, Dr. Bowman worked for eight seasons at Kansas City Repertory Theatre where he collaborated on both technical and artistic teams with Broadway and Tony Award winning artists from across the country. Additionally, Dr. Bowman worked for several seasons at the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. He has trained at The Second City in Chicago and with the New York based SITI Company in the Suzuki-Viewpoints method of acting. He teaches masterclasses and workshops in Suzuki-Viewpoints at various theaters, universities, and festivals across the region. Dr. Bowman鈥檚 theatre and directing work has been awarded recognition from Charlotte Street Foundation, the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Pitch Magazine, and the New Theatre Guild.
Dr. Bowman is the President of Mid-America Theatre Conference, where he previously served as Co-Chair of Playwriting. Additionally, Dr. Bowman served as Book Review Editor for the journal Theatre Topics. He has presented work nationally and abroad at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Mid-America Humanities Conference, Conference on Contemporary Religion in Quebec, the Athens Institute of Education and Research and the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Greece. His work has appeared in such journals as Etudes, The New England Theatre Journal, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and the Greek publication Mandragoras. He recently, along with his wife Elizabeth Bettendorf Bowman, published an anthology of Kansas City playwrights titled Their Own Devices. Dr. Bowman leads the department鈥檚 Summer Theatre in Greece study aboard program.
Education:
PHD 鈥� Theatre, University of Kansas
Interests:
Movement, Greek Tragedy, Theatre History, Religion, Directing, Stagecraft, Sound