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Art
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Borreca
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Co-Head, Iowa Playwrights Workshop
Biography
Art Borreca is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Iowa. He is Co-Head of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, the Department's long- established MFA Program in Playwriting, and Head of the MFA Program in Dramaturgy. He co-founded the Dramaturgy Program in 1999, building on a tradition of dramaturgy initiated within the Playwrights Workshop by its founder, Oscar Brownstein, in the 1970s, and further developed by Bob Hedley in the 1980s.
Art has worked as a dramaturg with a number of leading theatre artists, including Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka, Theodora Skipitares, Rinde Eckert, Naomi Wallace, David Hancock, and Lisa Schlesinger in such venues as the Yale Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, LaMama ETC, Oxford Stage Company, T.P.T. (Theatre Project Tokyo), and the University of Iowa’s Partnership-in-the-Arts program, which develops new works through professional residencies. He has also been a Core Member of the Faculty in Dramaturgy and Resident Dramaturg in the Hollins Playwrights Lab, the low-residency MFA Program in Playwriting at Hollins University; and a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of International Business Economics (UIBE) in Beijing.
Art's articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as TDR (The Drama Review), Modern Drama, and Theatre Journal; and in several books, including Dramaturgy in American Theatre, What is Dramaturgy?, Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America, and Embodied Dialogues: The Theatre of Naomi Wallace, Art was a Consulting Editor on the two-volume Norton Anthology of Drama.
One of Art’s essays, “Rethinking Difference,” was featured in LMDA’s “Dramaturging the Phoenix” series. “The Iowa New Play Festival-A Personal History” was published in the first issue of the UIowa Theatre Arts Journal, an online journal started by MFA Dramaturgy students at Iowa.
https://theatrelobby.studio.uiowa.edu/iowa-new-play-festival-2024/ui-theatre-arts-journal-elevating-voices-premier-edition
While providing the training needed to work as dramaturgs on works of all periods and types, the Iowa Dramaturgy Program focuses on the training of dramaturgs with special skills in the development of new work. The program is closely associated with the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, whose alumni include Tennessee Williams, Lee Blessing, Sherry Kramer, and Charles Smith, among many others. Art’s former Workshop students include Rebecca Gilman, David Hancock, Todd Ristau, Naomi Wallace, Lisa Schlesinger, David Adjmi, Kirsten Greenidge, Samuel D. Hunter, and Jen Silverman - among many others.
Alumni of the Dramaturgy Program include John Baker, Madison Colquette, Sarah Johnson, Bryon Moore, Jenni Page-White, and Christine Scarfuto. They have held positions as literary managers and dramaturgs at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Wooly Mammoth, The Lark, and Signature Theatre; have led programs at Hunter College, Indiana University, and other universities; and have held leadership positions in LMDA.
Art has worked as a dramaturg with a number of leading theatre artists, including Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka, Theodora Skipitares, Rinde Eckert, Naomi Wallace, David Hancock, and Lisa Schlesinger in such venues as the Yale Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, LaMama ETC, Oxford Stage Company, T.P.T. (Theatre Project Tokyo), and the University of Iowa’s Partnership-in-the-Arts program, which develops new works through professional residencies. He has also been a Core Member of the Faculty in Dramaturgy and Resident Dramaturg in the Hollins Playwrights Lab, the low-residency MFA Program in Playwriting at Hollins University; and a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of International Business Economics (UIBE) in Beijing.
Art's articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as TDR (The Drama Review), Modern Drama, and Theatre Journal; and in several books, including Dramaturgy in American Theatre, What is Dramaturgy?, Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America, and Embodied Dialogues: The Theatre of Naomi Wallace, Art was a Consulting Editor on the two-volume Norton Anthology of Drama.
One of Art’s essays, “Rethinking Difference,” was featured in LMDA’s “Dramaturging the Phoenix” series. “The Iowa New Play Festival-A Personal History” was published in the first issue of the UIowa Theatre Arts Journal, an online journal started by MFA Dramaturgy students at Iowa.
https://theatrelobby.studio.uiowa.edu/iowa-new-play-festival-2024/ui-theatre-arts-journal-elevating-voices-premier-edition
While providing the training needed to work as dramaturgs on works of all periods and types, the Iowa Dramaturgy Program focuses on the training of dramaturgs with special skills in the development of new work. The program is closely associated with the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, whose alumni include Tennessee Williams, Lee Blessing, Sherry Kramer, and Charles Smith, among many others. Art’s former Workshop students include Rebecca Gilman, David Hancock, Todd Ristau, Naomi Wallace, Lisa Schlesinger, David Adjmi, Kirsten Greenidge, Samuel D. Hunter, and Jen Silverman - among many others.
Alumni of the Dramaturgy Program include John Baker, Madison Colquette, Sarah Johnson, Bryon Moore, Jenni Page-White, and Christine Scarfuto. They have held positions as literary managers and dramaturgs at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Wooly Mammoth, The Lark, and Signature Theatre; have led programs at Hunter College, Indiana University, and other universities; and have held leadership positions in LMDA.
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