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Department ofTheatre and Dance

Brian Thorstenson

Brian Thorstenson

Senior Lecturer

Brian Thorstenson is a San Francisco based writer, teacher and occasional performer with an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Brian was a founding member of The Z Collective and one of the first resident artists of the Z Space. He is an alumni of the Resident Playwright Program of the Playwrights Foundation and one of the founding members of 6NewPlays. His last series of projects included Dearly Gathered with choreographers Rowena Richie, Christy Funsch and Chris Black, Weather to Whether with Erin Mei-Ling Stuart/EmSpace, Fugue and We Build Houses Here with Detour Dance, and Wakefield with 6NewPlays. His poetry has appeared in Foglifter, Burning House Press, Lambda Literary Review, and New American Writing. His next project is The Twilight Aristocracy with Detour.

Brian also sits on the Advisory Council of the SCU Center for Arts and Humanities.