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Dr. Anthony Hostetter [he/him] is a tenured assistant professor and the mainstage producer for the Department of Theatre and Dance at Rowan University. He is the founder of "The Manya Project," (https://sites.google.com/rowan.edu/the-manya-project/home) which is dedicated to the creation and performance of Holocaust documentary theatre works that incorporate the verbatim testimony of Holocaust survivors. He created and directed four new one-woman plays (Rella, Rose, and I: Elizabeth Ehrlich Roth's Story of Survival, I am Itkolo: The Story of Itka Frajman Zygmuntowicz, Try to Survive: Rose Ickowicz Rechnic's Memory of the Holocaust, and Girl in a Striped Dress: The Holocaust Story of Rosalie Lebovic Simon) which received their world-premiers at Rowan University on April 27 and 28, 2020. Anthony wrote and directed the 2018 production of Hell on Earth: Manya Frydman Perel's Shoah Experience. This fall, he will direct his latest play, Five Survivors Tell the World, which is a full-length work that will present the stories of all five of these survivors (November 8, 10, 11 in Pfleeger Concert Hall). He then plans on creating one-act plays that shares the stories of hidden children during the Holocaust. In February of 2013, he staged Charlotte Delbo’s challenging holocaust play, Who Will Carry The Word? at Rowan University. This production was restaged in January 2014 as an invited production to the Region II Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, where it was recognized by the Kennedy Center for “Distinguished Ensemble Achievement.” He also directed the production at Temple University (2008) and a Center City Philadelphia production (2009). Hostetter recently published an article on the subject of creating Holocaust theatre titled, “Embodying History: Preserving Memories of Holocaust Survivors Through Performance” in Critical Stages/ Scenes Critiques. Anthony directed Peter Barn’s Red Noses at Rowan University in 2014. He directed the 2003 English Language premier of Emmy Goring Stands by Her Man and the 2004 English language premier, Love Letters to Stalin. Anthony has also spent many years as a technical director, scenic, and lighting designer. Anthony Hostetter’s first book, Max Reinhardt’s Grosses Schauspielhaus: its Artistic Goals, Planning, and Operation from 1910 through 1933 was published in 2003. He won the 2001 Herbert D. Greggs Award for Outstanding Writing in Theatre Design and Technology for his peer-reviewed article, “A Disaster of Cosmic Proportions? Revisiting Max Reinhardt’s Grosses Schauspielhaus.” He has had reviews published by Theatre Journal and Communications from the International Brecht Society among others.  His “An Interview with John Clancy, Playwright and Director,” was published in Communications from the International Brecht Society, in Spring 2009.