Erik Ramsey

ERIK RAMSEY is an Associate Professor in the MFA Playwriting Program at Ohio University. His plays have been produced around the country, with several published by Samuel French and Dramatic Publishing. As a new play development specialist, Erik has served in a variety of roles, from Kennedy Center Faculty Fellow, to Head of Dramaturgy and Director of Innovation for WordBRIDGE Playwrights' Laboratory, to new play dramaturg for Steppenwolf Theater Company. Over the past decade, he has been a guest artist lecturing on playwriting, new play development and narrative theory in a variety of national and international venues, most recently at the University of Tulsa (2013), the St. Petersburg Academy of Dramatic Arts "New American Plays" Conference (St. Petersburg, Russia; 2011), and Lubimovka Playwrights Laboratory in Moscow, Russia in 2010.

Visit his blog on the Science of Narrative: Plotwrench.org.