Savran earned his Ph.D. in Theatre Arts from Cornell University in 1978 where he studied under Marvin Carlson and Bert O.
[4] In 2014, Savran received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Theatre Research.
[5] Savran received a fellowship at the International Center for Interweaving Performance Cultures at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2012 and again in 2014 to work on his most recent book project.
Focusing on musical theatre in particular, it analyzes the cultural exchanges between the U.S. and Germany and the U.S. and South Korea.
[7] The book also received honorable mention for the Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research.