# Tim Slover

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American dramatist

Tim Slover Occupation Playwright professor Nationality American Education Brigham Young University University of Michigan (MA, PhD)

**Tim Slover** is an American playwright and professor of theatre studies at the [University of Utah](/source/University_of_Utah).

Slover has a bachelor's degree in English from [Brigham Young University](/source/Brigham_Young_University) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan).

Besides widely performed plays, Slover also wrote the script for *[A More Perfect Union](/source/A_More_Perfect_Union_(film))*. 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 [Wilford Woodruff](/source/Wilford_Woodruff). His work *Joyful Noise* about [George Handel](/source/George_Handel) composing the Messiah, was first performed in 1998 at BYU and later by the [Lamb's Players Theatre](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lamb%27s_Players_Theatre&action=edit&redlink=1) in San Diego, California.

He left BYU to teach at [Utah Valley University](/source/Utah_Valley_University) in the mid-1990s, and then at the [University of Utah](/source/University_of_Utah) in 1999.

Slover also wrote the script for the film *[Minerva Teichert](/source/Minerva_Teichert): A Mission in Paint*.

Slover also wrote the book *The Christmas Chronicles: The Legend of Santa Claus*.[1]

Slover's play "Virtue" about [Hildegard of Bingen](/source/Hildegard_of_Bingen) received its world premiere at [Plan-B Theatre Company](/source/Plan-B_Theatre_Company) in February 2017.

Slover is a Latter-day Saint.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [*Deseret News*, December, 2010](https://web.archive.org/web/20150402181921/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700088069/Christmas-has-the-power-to-save-the-world-author-Tim-Slover-says.html?pg=all)

- [Samuel French link](http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/6707/joyful-noise)

- [University of Utah bio page on Slover](http://www.theatre.utah.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/tim-slover-ph-d/)

- [Mormon Literature Database entry on Slover](http://mormonlit.lib.byu.edu/lit_author.php?a_id=966)

- [review of Slover's work](http://www.motleyvision.org/2009/theater-review-tim-slovers-hancock-county-has-passion-at-westminster-college/)

- Mahonri Stewart. *Saints on Stage: An Anthology of Mormon Drama* Zarahemla Books, 2013.

- [*New York Times* review of *Joyful Noise*](https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/29/theater/theater-review-handel-s-holy-work-born-of-scandal.html)

## External links

- [Interview with Tim Slover on his play Virtue, *Healthy Hildegard*, 2017](https://www.healthyhildegard.com/hildegard-ordo-virtutum/)

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