Professorship and Dramaturgy
Katz has also had a long career as a dramaturg and professor, contributing to the development of numerous prominent theatre, film, and television professionals throughout the United States. In addition to Yale (where he was co-chairman of the School of Drama's Department of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism), he has taught at UCLA, Cornell, Stanford, Columbia University, Vassar College, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Giessen in Germany, and the Rhodopi International Theatre Laboratory in Bulgaria (of which he is a founding member, and which was renamed in his honor in 2008), amongst many others. He was most recently a Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 1984, he wrote a short essay, The Compleat Dramaturg, a standard amongst learning tools for the profession of Dramaturgy. In 2012, his book, Cleaning Augean Stables: Examining Drama's Strategies, was published.
Katz was a contributing dramaturg to Tony Kushner's Pulitzer-Prize winning play, Angels in America.
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