Dramaturging the Phoenix Essays

A Conversation About Returning to Community
by Melanie Anthony & Suzi Elnaggar

Stop
Waiting, Start Doing
by Samantha Baird

Twitter-turgy
by Samantha Baird

Aeschylus
says Black Lives Matter
by Emma Bilderback

Bringing the
Lost to Light
by Mark Bly

Rethinking
Difference
by Art Borreca

We
Need to Talk About the Backlog
by Marshall Botvinick

The New Normal — A
Proposition for Post-Pandemic Community Theatre in the South
by Jonah Boudreaux

Space
on the Sidewalk
by Kirsten Bowen

Notes from
the Sidelines
by Diane Brewer

The Work of the Theater; and why it is not the same as your job
by David Bruin

When
We Rebuild, Who Are We Rebuilding For?
by Sierra Carlson

Vigil
by Maegan
Clearwood

A Dinosaur’s Secret
by David Copelin

The
Pandemic and Accessibility: Why We Should Keep (Some) Theatre Online
by Rebecca Curran

This is a
Theatre Now: Reicpes for recreating performance conditions in an era of social distancing

by Emily DeDakis

A Future
in Community
by Clare Drobot

Sparks

by Julie Felise Dubiner

I Dare
Us, part 2
by Julie Felise Dubiner

Rebuilding the Theater
Around the Audience
by Michael Feldman

Light-Workers

by Colby Frederick

Yes,
And…
by Amy Freeman

Making
the Masks for the Future (feat. Indigenous Futurism)
by David Geary

Current
Resume Attached
by Alyson Germinder

Let’s
act as bravely in the world as we do in our rehearsal rooms
by Jacqueline Goldfinger

A
Rave for Dramaturgs

by Emma Goldman-Sherman

Dramaturgical Thinking: Locating Evidences over Artifacts
by Shelley Graham

Dramaturgy
of Virtual Gatherings OR Towards a Poetics of Zoom
by Laurel Green

Unexpected Benefits
(Or, Dramaturgy—That’s So Extra!)
by Heather Helinsky

Teaching
Dramaturgy for the Post-Covid19 World
by Jeanmarie Higgins and Jennifer Ewing-Pierce

What
Will the Phoenix Look Like
by Anne-Charlotte Harvey

Dramaturging the
Phoenix: Dramaturgs, Unite!
by Percival Hornak

The
Harder Disease to Beat
by Nicholas Horner

Who
Gets Left Behind?
by Christina Hurtado-Pierson

Entering
the Show at Intermission
by Ashlyn Inman

Dramaturging Divestment
by Fly Jamerson

Our
Turn to Witness
by Kristin Johnsen-Neshati

Abundance
Around the Corner
by Ramona Rose King

Free
Falling Into the Story
by Talya Kingston

The Future is
Accessible
by Andrea Kovich

October, Big Sur
by Sarah Rose Leonard

The Necessary
Theatre
by Linda Lombardi

I’m f*cking tired of
writing plays like this
by Rachel Lynett

What
We’re Doing When We’re Not Working
by Molly Marinik

Gazing through
Windows
by Karen Jean Martinson

Imagining
Theatre Post-Covid: 3.0; Yeah That Happened: Physical Dramaturgy & The Post-Insurrection
Pause
by Daniella Vinitski Mooney

Let It Burn

by Anne G. Morgan

Revolving
& Evolving Theatre (with a little help from the Beatles)
by Kate Mulley

Post-COVID
Theatre as Imagined by an Emerging North American Dramaturg in April 2020
by Aisling Murphy

Mycelial Dramaturgy:
Unseen Connections
by Claudia Nolan

A Hypothetical Response to the Anti-Intellectualism on Display in the Comments of an Unrequited High School Crush’s Facebook Post
by Olivia O’Connor

Mission
Accomplished
by Sally Ollove

Dramaturging
Coronavirus
by Yoni Oppenheim

Where Do We Go
Now?: Performance and Plague in a Digital Ageby Madeline Pages

Going
Downtown
by Michael Paller

Come
Outside
by Tanya Palmer

Necromancing
the Phoenix
by Emma Pauly

Playing with Fire:
Connection and Creation in Times of Chaos

by Lindsay Phillips

Rethinking
“Here” and “Now”
by Lucy Powis

The
Case for Dramaturgical Leadership Post-COVID-19
by Alix Rosenfeld

Return to the
Root
by Brad Rothbart

Looking
to the Past for Hope for the Future
by Christine Scarfuto

Second Career and Second Vocation
by Linda Scheufler

Dramaturging
the Phoenix: Denver/Mountain West Edition
by Heidi Schmidt, Lynde Rosario, and Jessica Kahkoska

Pandemic
Dramaturgy: Tragedy and Accountability
by Kelli Shermeyer

The Glitch
by Alyssa Sileo

Community-Based
Dramaturgy
by Lojo Simon

Gateway Shuffle
by Shawn Sprankle

No Resolution, No Rebirth
by Shawn Sprankle

Cultivating
Our Garden: Dramaturgy and Criticism with Senior Theatre Patrons
by Daniel Smith

It
mattered. And theater matters.
by Carla Steen

The
Next Normal and the Right Now
by Martha Wade Steketee

So,
About Shakespeare (and the Small Matter of Space)
by Jared Strange

Radical
Civic Dramaturgy
by LaRonika Thomas

Kingdom
Heart: A Dramaturgical Approach for the After&
by Deanie Vallone

A
Psychological Case for Theatre Now
by Miriam Weisfeld

On Being the Warrior
by Katy Zapanta