Company Dramaturg
Dr. Marsh Krauter is a dramaturg, theorist, and educator. A founding Core Member of BCTC, she is currently the Company Dramaturg. For BCTC she has provided production dramaturgical support for Gutenberg! The Musical!, The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias, and the original musical parody, Westeros Side Story. As a developmental dramaturg she was on the team for Light the Way: A Bicycle Safety Musical, Over There Outside, Good Earth, and Monsters Anonymous. Currently, Dr. Marsh Krauter is the development dramaturg for the Esperanza Rising project, the adaptation of the book Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad, and the new play Love in Times of Plague. In 2019 she spearheaded the creation of the Salon Reading Series and produces the Theater on the Block project, opening in 2021. Dr. Marsh Krauter is part of the BCTC team awarded an Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowship by the University of Surrey. After collaborating remotely through 2021 to develop a new piece of educational theatre for young audiences on themes of sustainability, the cohort will travel for a residency in the United Kingdom to workshop and debut the piece with students from the Guildford School of Acting.
As a former faculty member of Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, WA) she provided dramaturgical support for productions of Urinetown and Top Girls. A graduate of the University of Washington’s Theatre History and Dramatic Criticism program, her research centers on the intersecting histories of theater and technology. Recipient of the U.W. School of Drama’s Michael Quinn Writing Prize for her work in critical theory, her writing and reviews have been published in North Eastern Theater Journal, The Journal of Dramatic Theater and Criticism, and Prompt: A Journal of Theatre Theory, Practice, and Teaching. Dr. Marsh Krauter was the costume designer for Light the Way: A Bicycle Safety Musical and Monsters Anonymous for BCTC. In addition, she holds an M.A. in Text and Performance from King’s College, London in association with The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and a B.A. in Drama: Technical Theatre from San Francisco State University.
