At-A-Glance LMDA 40th Anniversary Conference Schedule

Updated June 10, 2025

Wednesday, June 25

  • All Day:
    • Participants/attendees start arriving
  • 3:00 PM: Volunteer orientation
  • 3:00–6:00 PM: Board meeting
  • 7:00–8:00 PM: at Eureka Bar:
    • The Dramaturgical Methodology of Make the Dream Real (60 mins)
      • Presenters: Karen Jean Martinson and Robert Lopez
  • 7:00 PM: at Sala de Espectáculos:
    • 20th Monologue Festival “Theater in One Voice” 2025 (in Spanish)

Thursday, June 26

At SDSU (San Diego)

  • 10:00 AM: Registration opens
  • 10:30 AM:
    • Dramatic Arts 005B: Theories of Theatre presentation session (60 mins):
      • Leo Kupferberg: Earlier/Later/Suddenly/Now: Deleuzian Approaches for Postdramatic Theater
      • Neah Lekan: Resurrection Dramaturgy: Re-staging The Moor Street Hamlet
    • Dramatic Arts 101: Illuminating Dramaturgy with Generative AI: A New Frontier in
      Creative Infrastructure       presentation (90 mins)
      • Kristi Good
    • Dramatic Arts 221: Panel discussion: Beyond the Bounds of Educational
      Infrastructure       (90 mins)
      • Graduates from the Theatre School at DePaul University: Joan Starkey, LeeAnne Nakamura, Molly
        Sharfstein, and Laura Rodriguez Sierra
  • Noon:
    • Welcome new LMDA members
    • Lunch out

At CECUT (Tijuana)

  • 9:30 AM: Registration opens
  • 10:00 AM:
    • Sala de Juntas de El Cubo: Workshop: ¿En dónde cabe la figura dramaturgista? /
      Where does a dramaturg fit?       (120 mins)
      • Presenters: Martha Herrera-Lasso and Rina Rajlevsky (bilingual)
  • Noon:
    • Welcome new LMDA members
    • Lunch out

Shared Events At SDSU Dramatic Arts Main Stage and CECUT’s Sala de Juntas de El Cubo

  • 1 PM:
    • Welcome (President, Board Chairs, Conference Co-hosts)
    • Kumeyaay blessing and song with Paul Cannon
    • 40th Anniversary Kickoff
  • 2:30 PM:Break/Networking Opportunity
  • 3:15 PM: Keynote dialogue: Creating Theater on the Mexican Border: Cross-cutting challenges of an artistic process. with Ramón Verdugo López (at CECUT, broadcast live
    to SDSU)
  • 4:30 PM: Keynote dialogue: New Play Infrastructure for Dramaturgs, Playwrights,
    and Directors

    • At SDSU, broadcast live to CECUT
    • Jeremy Cohen and Maria Patrice Amon, in dialogue with Danielle Mages Amato (at SDSU, broadcast live
      to CECUT)

At SDSU (San Diego)

  • 6:00 PM
    • SDSU Dramatic Arts Main Stage: Plenary Panel: Charting the Infrastructure: A
      New Way to Explore Plays

      • Alex Vermillion with Sally Cade Holmes and Lue Douthit
  • 7:30 PM:
    • Networking Event: Beach Bonfire Meet and Greet
      • at Ski Beach Park
  • 10:00 PM:
    • Night cap at Conference Bar

At CECUT (Tijuana)

  • 6:00 PM
    • Sala Federico Campbell: Plenary Panel: Celebration de Luis Valdez
      • Michael M Chemers with Analola Santana (bilingual presentation)
  • 7:30 PM:
    • Networking Event: Join LMDA president at Ceasar’s Restaurant
  • 10:00 PM:
    • Night cap at Conference Bar

Friday, June 27

At CECUT (Tijuana)

  • 9:00 AM
    • Registration opens at the info desk
  • 10:00 AM
    • Sala Frederico Campbell: Plenary Panel: Theatre from the Edge: Theatre Practices in Baja California
      • Valeria Vega with Gilberto Corrales, Ïtamar Domínguez, Yoall Morales, and Pita
        Zapot
  • 11:50 AM
    • Sala de Juntas de CENDOART: Workshop: Growing Literacy Through Theatrical
      Means

      • Laura Rodriguez Sierra
    • Sala de Video: Panel: Local Efforts Exploring Mexican Playwrights, Latine Artist
      Development, and Cross-Border Collaboration

      • Daniel Jáquez with Valeria Vega, Daniel Serrano, and Gaspar Orozco
  • 1:30 PM Regional Lunches
  • 2:50 PM
    • Sala de Video: Presentation Session: All the World’s a Stage
      • Jazmín Cato Sosa: A dramaturg in television
      • Yoall Morales Uribe: Imaginaries: A bridge between community theater and stage creation
      • Adriana Itamar Dominguez Muñoz How to make a cross-border mask
    • Sala de Lectura: Workshop: Dramaturgy World Café
      • Juliet Chia with Kemi King and Emma Bilderback
    • CECUT: Sala de Juntras de CENDOART: Panel: Building the New Play Pipeline: Literary Management as Creative
      Infrastructure

      • Anne G. Morgan with Danielle Mages Amato Lynde Rosario, Amber Bradshaw, and Adrian Centeno
  • 4:10 PM
    • Cinoteca: To Find a Genealogy
      • Simón Franco Suarez
  • 5:40 PM Dinner Out
  • 7:30 PM
    • Sala Federico Campbell Auditorium: Performance & Presentation
      • TuYo Theatre’s Pásale Pásale: a new immersive musical
        • Dr. Maria Patrice Amon
      • Portal / Amá
        • Briseida López, Jess Humphrey, Miroslava Wilson
  • 10:00 PM
    • Bus returns to SDSU

At SDSU (San Diego)

  • 7:30 AM
    • Bus departs from SDSU to CECUT
  • 10:00 AM
    • Site-Specific Option: Self-Guided Tour
  • 11:30 AM
    • Dramatic Arts 221: Panel discussion: Using the Infrastructure of Higher
      Education for New Play Development

      • Sarah Johnson with Sheridan Schreyer, Spencer Fields, and Megan Gray Lederman
  • 1:30 PM
    • Networking and Conversation Circles
  • 2:50 PM
    • Dramatic Arts 221: Workshop: Text, Testimony, and Theatricality: Dramaturgical
      Strategies for Documentary Performance       (60 mins)

      • Presenter: Shelley Graham
  • 5:00 PM Dinner Out
  • 6:00 PM
    • Optional Site Specific Performance: 59 Acres: A Speculative Soundwalk by Marike Splint at
      UCSD near La Jolla Playhouse

      • 60 mins; bring cell phone with headphones
  • 7:30 or 8:00 PM:
    • Optional Show: Indian Princess by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez (WP), La Jolla Playhouse
      (LJP)
    • Optional Show: The Janeiad (WP) by Anna Ziegler at The Old Globe
  • 10:00 PM:
    • Night cap at Conference Bar

Saturday, June 28

At The Old Globe (San Diego)

  • 8:30 AM
    • Bus departs from SDSU to The Old Globe
  • 9:00 AM
    • Seuss Room: Panel: LMDA Debut Panel
      • Presenters: KJ Martinson and Dan Smith
    • Board Room: Workshop: Archiving Dramaturgies as Creative Infrastructure
      • Presenter: LaRonika Thomas
    • Hattox Hall: Presentation Session: Indigenous Theatre
      • Jill Carter: Land-Based Dramaturgy and the Fleshly Archive
      • Sierra Rosetta: The Dramaturgy of Identity-Driven Theatre Making: Ty Defoe and All My
        Relations’ Skeleton Canoe
      • Roweena Mackay: Dramaturgy in Progress: The Tohono O’odham Community College
        Comedy Club
  • 10:15 AM
    • Craig Noel Garden: Panel: Potato Chip Dramaturgy
      • Presenter: Lindsay L. Barr with Padra Crisafulli, Sara Sotelo, and Aggie Woodbury
    • Seuss Room: Presentation Session: Building Community
      • Jen Shook: Recuperating Performance Pasts to (Re)build Community Connections
      • Thomas Underdal: Bridging Between Worlds: Developing Interactive Lobby Experiences
        Through Dramaturgy and Design
      • Rye Gentleman: Library Instruction from the Classroom to the Rehearsal Room
    • Hattox Hall: Panel: Musical Theater Development
      • Gabriel Greene with Stephen Brotebeck and Eric Keen-Louie
  • 11:30 AM
    • Hattox Hall: Hot Topics!
  • 1:00 PM
    • Lunchtime Discussion Options at Craig Noel Garden:
      • Dramaturgy and Devising: CFP Release
        • Presenters: Karen Jean Martinson with Jen Shook, Jane Barnette, and Oona Hatton
      • LMDA Review: A Submission Workshop
        • Presenters: Sarah Johnson and Allison Backus
  • 2:00 PM
    • Optional Show: The Janeiad by Anna Ziegler at The Old Globe
  • 2:15 PM
    • Craig Noel Garden: Panel: Hip Hop it Don’t Stop: an exploration of outreach and
      development

      • Wind Dell Woods with Crystal Mercado Rosure and Yari Cervas
    • Seuss Room:: Panel: History and Historical Research as Dramaturgical
      Infrastructure: A Two-Part Panel

      • Caitlin A. Kane with Khalid Y. Long, Lindsay L. Barr, and Daphnie Sicre
    • Board Room: Presentation Session: Artistic Access
      • Thelma Virata de Castro: Navigations: A Pinay Playwright’s Development Journey
        in San Diego
      • Haia R’nana Bchiri: The Importance of Jewish Dramaturgy: Reflections of an
        Accidental Specialis        t
  • 3:45 PM
    • Hattox Hall: Annual General Meeting
  • 7:00 PM
    • Banquet at Mingei Museum and honoring Luis Valdez
  • 10:15 PM
    • Bus returns to CECUT
  • 11:00 PM
    • Close out at Conference Bar for the diehards!

At CECUT (Tijuana)

  • 7:30 AM
    • Bus departs from CECUT to The Old Globe
  • 9:00 AM
    • Suggestions for a Self-Guided Tour
  • 10:00 AM
    • Sala Federico Campbell: Panel: Celebration and Book Discussion: Luz
      Testigo: Dramaturgismo en Mexico

      • Michael M Chemers with Analola Santana (bilingual presentation)
  • 5:15 PM
    • Dinner/Bar Meetup with speeches/celebration for those not attending the banquet

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