The LMDA Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Ken Cerniglia is LMDA's new President-Elect!  Ken, a current Board member, will serve one year in this position and will become the organization's President for a term of two years to commence at the conclusion of the 2016 conference until 2018. 

 

Ken is dramaturg and literary manager for Disney Theatrical Group, where since 2003 he has developed over fifty shows for professional, amateur and school productions, including The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Aladdin, Peter and the Starcatcher, Newsies, The Little Mermaid, High School Musical and Tarzan. He has adapted Broadway scripts for young performers, including Beauty and the Beast JR., The Little Mermaid JR., The Lion King JR. and The Lion King KIDS. Recent freelance dramaturgy credits include Chris Brubeck’s symphonic play The Cricket in Times Square and The Gift of Nothing (Kennedy Center), the documentary play ReEntry (American Records), and Bridges (Berkeley Playhouse). Ken is resident dramaturg for Seattle’s Fisher Ensemble and artistic director of Two Turns Theatre Company, which produces intimate theater in unique places. He holds a Ph.D. in theater history and criticism from the University of Washington, has published several articles and book chapters, and recently edited Peter and the Starcatcher: The Annotated Broadway Play (2012) and Newsies: Stories of the Unlikely Broadway Hit (2013). Ken is a co-founder of the American Theatre Archive Project, which supports theater makers in archiving records of their work for the benefit of artists, scholars, patrons and the public.