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

University of Utah The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public university, public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret (Book of Mormon), Deseret by the General A ...

. 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 George Handel composing the Messiah, was first performed in 1998 at BYU and later by the Lamb's Players Theatre 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 ''

Minerva Teichert Minerva Bernetta Kohlhepp Teichert (August 28, 1888 – May 3, 1976) was a 20th-century American artist who painted Western and Mormon subjects, including murals of scenes from the Book of Mormon. She received her art education from the Art I ...

: 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 Plan-B Theatre Company 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
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