Arly Rubens (she/her) is a New Jersey-based dramaturg with a special interest in interactive, experiential, and collaborative dramaturgy. She develops multimedia dramaturgical tools, resources, and outreach initiatives: these have included cigar rolling workshops with casts and creative teams (Anna in the Tropics), a tactile "found object" museum for audiences to explore (Parade), and a virtual lobby, complete with themed drink-along-at-home cocktail recipes, for a digital "Drunk Shakespeare" production (Romeo and Juliet). She is an alumnus of Kean University and has trained with the Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive, Premiere Stages (Artistic/Liteary Intern), and the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Dramaturgy/Education Intern). Arly established LMDA's Affinity Group for Early Career Dramaturgs, and she's a founding member of The People's Theater (Instagram: @peoplestheaternj), a socialist theater collective led by its members in conversation. When she's not doing dramaturgy for theater, she's doing dramaturgy as an Administrative Assistant for the Rutgers University Writing Program.

Dramaturgy for digital theatre; interactive and multimedia dramaturgical tools; collaborative production dramaturgy; audience engagement; dramaturgies of the theatermaking process; dramaturgy with young artists and audiences; political and leftist theatre; Shakespeare

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