Brian Guehring is the Playwright in Residence and Education Director of the Omaha Theater Company, (one of the nation’s ten largest professional theaters for young people) where he has adapted the world premiere scripts of the Newbery Award winning novel Julie of the Wolves (directed by Everett Quinton) Miss Bindergarten, Holiday Time Around the World, and Sacagawea: Discovering History. Brian’s scripts have won several national and regional awards. His adaptation of The Misfits was honored as one of the top 10 local productions by the Omaha World Herald (the only TYA production honored), was featured in an article in TCG’s American Theater Magazine, and was selected in 2012 for a Playwights in Our Schools residency in Park City High School. His original Theater in Education play The Super Adventures of Nutrition Man and Dr. Exercise and his adaptations of Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller won AATE (American Alliance for Theater and Education) Unpublished Play Project Awards. His script The Bully Show was selected for the 2002 New Visions/New Voices new play development workshop at the Kennedy Center. Brian received a playwriting fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council in 2002. His original script script King Chemo won the Southwest Theater Association’s 1997 Best New Play for Children, and his original play Creating Haley’s World was selected in 2003 for development in the inaugural Playwrights in the Schools program. His plays have been produced by Lexington Children’s Theater, Imagination Stage, South Carolina Children’s Theater, A. D. Players in Houston, Apple Tree Theater for Young Audiences in Chicago, Barter Theater of Virginia, Town Hall Theater in Dayton, Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia, and other schools and theaters across the country. King Chemo and The Bully Show are published by Dramatic Publishing Company and his 10 minute play Mindless Drooling Teenage Zombie Bullies is published in the Dramatic Publishing Company’s The Bully Plays.
His education department at the Omaha Theater Company does drama and dance education outreach for every single child in over 71 local schools each school year (reaching over 27,000 students). The outreach includes touring Theater in Education plays, drama in the classroom (tied to reading or history curriculum), pre-and post show workshops, and theater workshops in the school. 
Another 1,500 students participate in the theater’s classes and youth productions. He earned his MFA in children’s theater and creative drama from University of Texas at Austin. Brian has been teaching theater, acting, creative drama, improvisation, and playwriting for 18 years for students aged 4 through college. He has worked as an Artist in Schools in Texas, Georgia, Iowa and Nebraska. He has taught for numerous organizations including University of Texas at Austin, Macon State College, Omaha Theater Ballet, Omaha Symphony, Nebraska Arts Council, and the Texas Young Playwrights Festival.
Brian Guehring has received regional and national attention for his work using improvisational drama with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and straight allied youth.
He presented his work at several American Alliance for Theater and Education national conferences, the national LGBT Task Force Conference in 2006, the Texas Network of Youth Services Annual Conference, and won a prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Grant. Pride Players won a Human and Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association in 2006 and hosted a National Queer Youth Theater Director Retreat in the summer of 2011.
Brian Guehring has also been a member of the resident acting company at the Omaha Theater Company for Young People for the past 15 years. He has been seen on stage as the Linus in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz, Harry in Harry the Dirty Dog, Captain Meriwether Lewis in Sacagawea: Discovering History, and in ballets as Uncle Drosselmier/Mouse King in the Nutcracker 
and Stepsister in Cinderella. Brian earned his BA in theater from Duke University. He was recently invited to participate on the National Endowment of the Arts’s five person review panel for national arts education grants. Brian is currently serving on the national board of directors of Theater for Young Audiences/USA, the United States Center for the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ), and a national membership organization that strengthens the artistic and cultural impact of theatre for young audiences by empowering, connecting and inspiring our members – thereby fostering a global appreciation of the field’s excellence.