David Savran

David Savran is a specialist in twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. and German theatre, musical theatre, and social theory. He is the author of eight books, most recently Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class , the winner of the Joe A. Callaway Prize. He served as a judge for the Obie Awards and the Lucille Lortel Awards and was a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. He holds the Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre and is Distinguished Professor...See more

David Savran is a specialist in twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. and German theatre, musical theatre, and social theory. He is the author of eight books, most recently Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class , the winner of the Joe A. Callaway Prize. He served as a judge for the Obie Awards and the Lucille Lortel Awards and was a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. He holds the Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre and is Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. See less