Eric Samuelsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEric Samuelsen
American playwright
Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1956
Place of Birth: Provo, Utah, United States
Date of Death: 20-Sep-2019
Profession: playwright
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Eric Samuelsen
- Eric Roy Samuelsen (April 10, 1956 – September 20, 2019) was an American playwright and emeritus professor of theatre at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
- He is considered one of the most important Mormon playwrights, and has been called a Mormon Charles Dickens or Henrik Ibsen.
- He won the Association for Mormon Letters (AML) drama award in 1994, 1997, and 1999, and was AML president from 2007 to 2009.
- In 2012 he received the Smith–Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters.
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