by Jon Tuttle (Author)
South Carolina Onstage offers a collection of seven plays spanning two hundred years, all by South Carolina authors. It begins with a concise history of the theater in the Palmetto State, from the first dramatic productions in colonial Charleston through the rise of opera houses and community theatres across the state, to the dynamic dramatic culture South Carolina today enjoys. Each of the plays included here illuminates a different moment in South Carolina's history and is prefaced by an introductory essay. Collectively, these plays reveal the rich diversity of South Carolina's dramatic heritage.
Author Biography
Jon Tuttle is Distinguished Professor of English at Francis Marion University, specializing in Modern and American Drama. He is also Director of University Honors, the Nellie Cooke Sparrow Writer-in-Residence, and an FMU Trustees Research Scholar. He has received the South Carolina Governor's Award in the Humanities and both the Founders Award and Lifetime Service Award from the South Carolina Theater Association and has served on the boards of the South Carolina Academy of Authors, the Florence Regional Arts Alliance, and the Jasper Project. He was for over a decade the Playwright-in-Residence and Literary Manager at Trustus Theater in Columbia, SC; some of his own plays are included in The Trustus Collection (Muddy Ford Press, 2019) and Two South Carolina Plays (Hub City Press, 2009). He also edited David Kranes: Selected Plays (Level 4, 2011).