Bio: Tiffany Antone is a playwright, director, and the creative mind behind Little Black Dress INK (LBDI) – a female playwright producing organization.  As LBDI’s artistic director, Tiffany has implemented a unique peer review process that allows female playwrights a voice in each of LBDI’s projects.  LBDI’s annual ONSTAGE Project—which features new play readings in multiple cities across the country as the festival builds towards its final production in Arizona—is now in its fourth year.  Tiffany holds her MFA in Playwriting from UCLA, and is a proud member of The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (for whom she is also a contributing blogger).  Tiffany has also written for HowlRound.com. 

As a playwright, Tiffany’s work has been read and/or performed in Los Angeles, New York, D.C., and Minneapolis.  Her play Twigs and Bone was a 2014 Great Plains Conference selection and will be produced by Acadiana Repertory Theatre in the fall.  Tiffany’s play Cricket Woman Mother Earth (or) A Nasty Comeuppance, was a 2011 O’Neil finalist.  Her plays Ana and the Closet and Twigs and Bone were both Jerome Finalists and O’Neil semi-finalists for 2009 & 2010.  Her play The Good Book is available through Samuel French.  Tiffany was a 2008 Hawthornden Fellow and a 2009 Sherwood Award Finalist with CTG, and was recently awarded the 2012 Bucky Award for Outstanding Literary Artist. 

You can read more about Tiffany and her work at TiffanyAntone.com or at LittleBlackDressINK.org.  You can also follow Tiffany @LadyPlaywright  and follow Little Black Dress INK @LBlackDressINK

“Focus” for the week: My focus for the week will be gender parity and Little Black Dress INK’s ONSTAGE Project which utilizes a unique peer-review process to curate and select work for production. 
 
Questons from LMDA:
What is your definition of dramaturgy? I think the art of dramaturgy (and it is most definitely an art) is realized when its practitioners further the communication and connection between artist and their audience, director, and material. 
What is your dream project? As an all round theatrician, my goal is to continue to teach, write, and direct new and innovative works and somehow make a living in the process.  As a playwright it’s to get my work seen and to spark a dialogue within my audience.  As the artistic director of Little Black Dress INK, my goals are to continue to support female playwrights and to be able to increase my producing reach to bring our ONSTAGE Project to more cities, and thereby produce more female playwrights.  So the very long answer to this seemingly simple question is that I wear too many hats to have just one dream project, but am instead working towards making a lot of things happen!  Hopefully I’ll succeed on at least a few fronts!
 
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