Dr. Nathan Bowman 

Dr. Nathan Bowman teaches courses in acting, movement, theatre history, stagecraft, and study abroad. He holds a BA in Theatre and Philosophy from Northwest Missouri State University, a MA in Religious Studies, and a PhD in Theatre from the University of Kansas.

Dr. Bowman is the co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of Kansas City Public Theatre, which was honored by the State of Missouri “2022 Arts Organization of the Year.” Additionally, his 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. His recent directing credits include Dr. Faustus, Oedipus the King, the new work Mirrors, featured in The Pitch “Best of KC 2020 (KCPublic), “Tartuffenthrope,” featured in The Pitch “Best of KC 2021” (KCMoliere), Tartuffe, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women (Benedictine College). He trained with the New York based SITI Company in the Suzuki-Viewpoints method of acting and teaches workshops in Suzuki-Viewpoints at various conferences, festivals, and colleges.

Dr. Bowman is the Co-Chair of Playwriting at Mid-America Theatre Conference and Chair of the International Symposium on Ancient Drama at the Athens Institute of Education and Research. He serves as Book Review Editor for the publication Theatre Topics and 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 in Greece. His work has appeared in such journals as Etudes, The New England Theatre Journal, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Mantragoras. Dr. Bowman has acted and directed in Greece on several occasions at the Ancient Theaters of Oiniades and Messene including productions of Antigone, The Trojan Women and Hippolytus. Dr. Bowman leads the department’s Summer Theatre in Greece study aboard program.

Education:

PHD – Theatre, University of Kansas

Interests:

Movement, Greek Tragedy, Theatre History, Religion, Directing, Stagecraft, Sound