Nora Titone is the author of the Civil War history My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth (Free Press, 2010). She was Resident Dramaturg at Court Theatre from 2016 to 2022, the year Court received the Regional Tony Award. As a writer, dramaturg and historical researcher, Titone has collaborated with a range of artists and scholars including playwright Anna Deavere Smith and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. She has contributed to projects in television, film, theatre, and publishing, working with PBS, Seven Bucks Productions, DreamWorks Studios, and Arena Stage, among others. For Goodwin’s critically acclaimed Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Simon & Schuster, 2005), Titone worked with archival manuscript collections related to Lincoln and members of his wartime Cabinet in libraries across the country. She based My Thoughts Be Bloody on previously unpublished diaries, letters, and manuscripts belonging to the 19th-century Booth theatrical family. As an oral historian, Titone helped create a documentary history of the 1996 U.S. Presidential election through interviews with Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Al Gore, Roger Ailes, Colin Powell, Ann Richards, and other public figures. Titone is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago specializing in biography and narrative nonfiction. She studied history at Harvard University and UC Berkeley, and is represented by Creative Artists Agency.