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Brian Guehring is the Education Director
and playwright-in-residence for the Omaha Theater Company,
the nation’s third largest professional theater for
young people. Brian earned his BA in theater from Duke University
and promptly 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 12 years. He has worked as an Artist
in Schools in Texas, Georgia, Iowa and Nebraska and 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.
As the playwright-in-residence for the Omaha Theater Company
for Young People, Brian has adapted the world premiere scripts
of the Newbery Award winning novel Julie of the
Wolves (directed by Everett Quinton), Brave
Little Tailor, Holiday
Time Around the World, and Sacagawea: Discovering
History. Mr. Guehring’s
scripts have won several national and regional awards. His
world premiere adaptation of Where the Red Fern
Grows won the 2002 AATE (American Alliance
for Theater and Education) Unpublished Play Project. 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, Creating Haley’s World was
selected in 2003 by the Children’s Theatre Foundation
for development in the inaugural Playwrights in the Schools
program.
Brian Guehring has been a member of the resident acting company
at the Omaha Theater Company for Young People for the past
8 years. He has been seen on stage as 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. He also directs Pride
Players each year for Teens N Theater and for
summer youth shows. Mr. Guehring most recently was awarded
a Youth Advocacy Award from the National Education Association. |
