Philip Boehm

Philip Boehm (born 1958) is an American playwright, theatre director and literary translator.[1] Born in Texas, he was educated at Wesleyan University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the State Academy of Theater in Warsaw, Poland.

Boehm is the founder of the Upstream Theater in St. Louis,[2] which has become known for its productions of foreign plays. Fluent in English, German and Polish, he has directed plays in Poland and Slovakia. His own written work includes several plays such as Mixtitlan, Soul of a Clone, Alma en venta, The Death of Atahualpa and Return of the Bedbug.

Boehm has translated more than twenty literary works from German and Polish. He has won numerous prizes for his translations, including the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, as well as various awards from the American Translators Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, the Austrian Ministry of Culture, and the Texas Institute of Letters.

Selected works

References

  1. Profile at John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  2. Upstream Theater. About Upstream Theater, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, MO.
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