Tim Slover is an American playwright and professor of theatre studies at the

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. Slover has a bachelor's degree in English from

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and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the

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. Besides widely performed plays, Slover also wrote the script for '' A More Perfect Union''. His play "A March Tale" won the Association for Mormon Letters Award for Drama in 1995. Among his many plays is ''God's Fisherman'' a play about

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. His work ''Joyful Noise'' about

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composing the Messiah, was first performed in 1998 at BYU and later by the

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in San Diego, California. He left BYU to teach at

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in the mid-1990s, and then at the

in 1999. Slover also wrote the script for the film ''

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: A Mission in Paint''. Slover also wrote the book ''The Christmas Chronicles: The Legend of Santa Claus''.''Deseret News'', December, 2010
/ref> Slover's play "Virtue" about

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received its world premiere at

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in February 2017. Slover is a Latter-day Saint.

References

Samuel French linkUniversity of Utah bio page on SloverMormon Literature Database entry on Sloverreview of Slover's work
*Mahonri Stewart. ''Saints on Stage: An Anthology of Mormon Drama'' Zarahemla Books, 2013.

External links

Interview with Tim Slover on his play Virtue, ''Healthy Hildegard'', 2017
{{DEFAULTSORT:Slover, Tim Living people Brigham Young University alumni University of Michigan alumni University of Utah faculty American dramatists and playwrights American Latter Day Saints Year of birth missing (living people)