Nora Titone is Senior Director of Programming and Undergraduate Research in the Parrhesia Program. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Civil War history My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth (Simon & Schuster, 2010), and was Resident Dramaturg at Court Theatre from 2016 to 2022, the year Court won the Tony Award for Best Regional Theatre. As a writer and historian, Titone has collaborated with a range of artists and scholars including Anna Deavere Smith and Doris Kearns Goodwin. As a dramaturg, she contributed to Court's productions of Man in the Ring, The Hard Problem, All My Sons, and The Adventures of Augie March. She also is a contributor to projects in television, film, and publishing. A researcher on Goodwin’s 2005 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Titone worked with the papers of Abraham Lincoln and members of his wartime Cabinet in archives across the country. She based My Thoughts Be Bloody, a multi-generational biography of the Booth family, on previously unpublished 19th-century diaries, letters, and manuscripts. Titone studied history at Harvard University and UC Berkeley. She is represented by Creative Artists Agency.