Timothy W. Scholl is a doctoral candidate at the University of California Santa Barbara curently completeing his dissertation on the performance of the German classics at the end of World War II.

Born and raised in Indiana, Timothy took his Bachelor's degree in Theater (Directing and Playwriting) cum laude from the University of Evansville in Evansville, IN in 1993. After graduation he joined the Office of Admission at the Unversity of Evansville where he served as an Admission Counselor and later as Assistant Director of Admission. While with the Office of Admission, Timothy worked closely with the Department of Theatre, recruiting and auditioning students from accross the country for UE's national recognized theatre training program. He also served as the admission coordinator for the University Honors Program, interviewing and evaluating students for admission into the program.

In 1996 he returned to academe in and was accepted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While at the University of Nebraska, Timothy served as the Artistic Director for Theatrix, UNL's second stage. He also served as a teching assistant. Timothy received his M.A. in Theatre History from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1998 and subsequently was accepted to the Ph.D. program at the University of California Santa Barbara. He completed his coursework at UCSB in 2000. While at UCSB, Timothy served as a graduate student representative to the faculty, a graduate member of two departmental search committees and was selected as a teaching associate to teach the senor directing class in the Fall of 2001. He has participated in several professional conferences, including ASTR, ATHE, and MATC. Currently, he serves as the organizer of the National Culture / National Identity Research Group for ASTR (American Society of Theatre Research).

In addition to his academic work, Scholl is also an accomplished director and has directed many plays including Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jane Anderson's Defying Gravity, Jean Genet's Deathwatch, Tennesse Williams' I Rise in Flame Cried the Phoenix, Terry Scaaf's A Crisis of Mid-Life Proportions, David Saar's The Yellow Boat, and the premiere of Gretchen Icenogle's Trailing Colors. As a playwright, Scholl has had his work performed with the Indiana Theatre Works program in Indianapolis and the University of Nebraska.

In the fall of 2000, Scholl traveled to Germany to research archive material for his dissertation and attend productions at Germany's premiere theatre companies, including the Berliner Ensemble and the Deutsches Theater. His dissertaion entitled Reconstructing a German National Cultural Identity: The Performance of German Classic Drama in Postwar Germany is due to be complete in December 2003.