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Natalie Gaupp, Ph.D.	Senior Lecturer, Playwright-in-Residence
Natalie Gaupp holds a Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Dallas, an M.A. and B.F.A. from the University of Texas at Arlington, and an A.A. from Lon Morris College. She has professional acting and directing credits throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, with additional credits in Los Angeles, Miami and NYC. As a playwright, she has won regional and national honors, and has developed her work with the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's New Play Development Workshop (Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, NYC, Toronto), Inner Space Theatre (NYC), Pelican Theatre (Miami, FL), FronteraFest (Austin, TX), Creative Arts Theatre & School (Arlington, TX) and Southwest Theatre and Film Association, as well as with local venues such as Watertower Theatre, Playwright's Theatre of Dallas, Theatre Three, SceneShop at Arts Fifth Avenue, and Texas Woman's University. Her arts-in-education play, ARTSTARS, was selected for a developmental grant by The Hillcrest Foundation, produced by Theatre Three, and received further support from Variety Club of North Texas. She was one of 15 playwrights selected for LaMaMa Umbria in Spoleto, Italy, where she worked under the guidance of Erik Ehn, Head of Playwriting at Brown University. Her doctoral dissertation, THE HYPNAGOGIC STATE: A Futuristic Play and Its Scholarly Placement, was supervised by Dr. Rainer Schulte, who serves in the UT Dallas Katherine R. Cecil Endowed Professorship. Additionally, Dr. Gaupp has received the Oscar G. Brockett Award in Theatre History, is a founder of Spare Room Productions, a member of Dramatists Guild, and a recipient of the UT Arlington Smotherman Faculty Award, which recognizes faculty within the College of Liberal Arts whose expertise and teaching abilities have inspired students to create work of exceptional merit. Her current play-in-development, PAPARAZZA, has been commissioned by the UT Arlington Department of Theatre Arts and will be performed during the 2011-2012 performance season.

Natalie Gaupp holds a Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Dallas, an M.A. and B.F.A. from the University of Texas at Arlington, and an A.A. from Lon Morris College. She has professional acting and directing credits throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, with additional credits in Los Angeles, Miami and NYC. As a playwright, she has won regional and national honors, and has developed her work with the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's New Play Development Workshop (Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, NYC, Toronto), Inner Space Theatre (NYC), Pelican Theatre (Miami, FL), FronteraFest (Austin, TX), Creative Arts Theatre & School (Arlington, TX) and Southwest Theatre and Film Association, as well as with local venues such as Watertower Theatre, Playwright's Theatre of Dallas, Theatre Three, SceneShop at Arts Fifth Avenue, and Texas Woman's University. Her arts-in-education play, ARTSTARS, was selected for a developmental grant by The Hillcrest Foundation, produced by Theatre Three, and received further support from Variety Club of North Texas. She was one of 15 playwrights selected for LaMaMa Umbria in Spoleto, Italy, where she worked under the guidance of Erik Ehn, Head of Playwriting at Brown University. Her doctoral dissertation, THE HYPNAGOGIC STATE: A Futuristic Play and Its Scholarly Placement, was supervised by Dr. Rainer Schulte, who serves in the UT Dallas Katherine R. Cecil Endowed Professorship. Additionally, Dr. Gaupp has received the Oscar G. Brockett Award in Theatre History, is a founder of Spare Room Productions, a member of Dramatists Guild, and a recipient of the UT Arlington Smotherman Faculty Award, which recognizes faculty within the College of Liberal Arts whose expertise and teaching abilities have inspired students to create work of exceptional merit. Her current play-in-development, PAPARAZZA, has been commissioned by the UT Arlington Department of Theatre Arts and will be performed during the 2011-2012 performance season.