Eric Roy Samuelsen (April 10, 1956 – September 20, 2019)[1][2] was an American playwright and emeritus professor of theatre at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
[7] Eric Samuelsen was born in Provo, Utah, but spent most of his early life in Bloomington, Indiana.
Throughout his career, at least 24 of Samuelsen's plays were produced professionally throughout the United States, including California, Indiana, Louisiana, New York, and Utah.
[11] Most of Samuelsen's early plays were produced at Brigham Young University, but around 2003 he began a relationship with Plan-B Theatre Company.
Following illness and a diagnosis of polymyositis, a degenerative muscular disease, Samuelsen retired from BYU in 2012, where he had taught for 20 years.