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America cited Grange in 2014 with its "Encore Award" for his "contributions to the acting profession." He has also received university awards from parents of
Nebraska students. In the University's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Emerging Media, he has taught mostly academic courses in theatre history, script analysis, film technology, and seminars on various film actors and genres. While serving as Chairman of the Graduate Committee in the Johnny Carson School, his colleagues elected him their representative to the Faculty Senate for several three-year terms. After terms in the Faculty Senate, he has served as a consultant for several European publication and institutional boards. He retired from active teaching and service at the University of Nebraska in 2023, but he continues his research, scholarly, and editorial activity as Professor
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William Grange performed with the Light Opera of
Manhattan and the Public Theater in New York while still attending Columbia University. He later acted with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, TheatreWorks USA (New York), National Theatre Company (New York), Mark I Dinner Theatre (Florida), Haymarket
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since 1996, Grange has published several books, scholarly articles, and received numerous international awards for his scholarship and teaching, including three
Fulbrights and five fellowships from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service). The Actors' Fund of
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He also directed new translations of dramas by
Bertolt Brecht. He ran afoul of numerous Roman Catholic strictures at the Jesuit institution, though he published two books and several articles, and won fellowships from the German government and the National Endowment for the Humanities with full
87:(London, UK: Methuen, 2021). He is also the author of numerous book chapters, articles in scholarly journals, reviews of both books and productions, and has presented dozens of papers at scholarly conferences both in the United States and abroad.
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were in high school radio announcing (sponsored by Ohio State
University) and in competitive patriotic speech (sponsored by the Sons of the American Revolution). Grange won the state championship in both contests.
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with mezzo-soprano
Beverly Wolff met with approval. College administrators were nevertheless pleased when he left Florida Southern to accept a position at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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VI No. 2 (1995): 33-45. “‘Tweaked Roman’ in The
Menaechmus Twins by Plautus,” On-Stage Studies, 1994: 18-27. “Impulses Mirrored Darkly: Theatrical Images of Idealism in the Weimar Republic,”
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Rennert, Frankfurt: Lang, 2004. pp. 196–201 “The Popular Repertory and the German-American Audience: the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, 1885-1909,”
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He has received five research fellowships from the German
Academic Exchange Service; he was also the recipient of awards and fellowships from the
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in Europa, Ed. Horst Fassel, et al. Lodz, Poland: University of Lodz Press, 2005, pp. 226–236. “Rules, Regulations, and the Reich,”
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support from the Jesuit fathers. Other Roman Catholics, however, were glad when he departed in 1996 for the University of Nebraska.
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ed. Veronika Zangl and Brigitte Dalinger, Göttingen: Vandenhoek und Ruprecht, 2019. “The Astonishing Career of Heinrich Conried,”
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in New York City, with a thesis titled "The Role of Tusenbach in Chekhov's 'The Three Sisters.'" He received a doctorate from
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Ed. Glen Gadberry. New York: Greenwood, 1995: 75-89. “Choices of Evil: Brecht’s Modernism in the work with Eisler and Dessau,”
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Theatre Lincoln, and Nebraska Repertory Theatre. He has been a member of Actors' Equity Association since 1972.
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Polen und Europa : deutschsprachiges Theater in Polen und deutsches Minderheitentheater
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with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1972 he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from
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Grange chaired the Performing Arts Department and directed numerous musicals at
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