At its 30th Anniversary Conference in New York City, NY, the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas presented the Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy to Nakissa C. Etemad.
There's a great Canadian contingent representing our country's dramaturgical practice at the LMDA Conference in New York City June 25 - 27, 2015. Follow the conversation online @LMDAmericas #LMDA15 SpiderWebShow is live tweeting events and panels @SpiderWebShow And HowlRound is live-streaming!
The LMDA Board of Directors is pleased to announce it has elected Brian Quirt to serve as the 2015-18 LMDA Board Chair. Brian is the Toronto-based Artistic Director of Nightswimming, which has commissioned and developed more than 30 new plays, dance works and musical pieces since 1995. Brian also serves as Director of the Banff Centre Playwrights Colony, which he has expanded to incorporate
Ken is dramaturg and literary manager for Disney Theatrical Group, where since 2003 he has developed over f
Bio: Jules Odendahl-James is a scholar/artist who works as a director and dramaturg primarily in the Triangle, NC and serves as the Regional Vice-President for the Southeast for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (@LMDAmericas).
Bio: Alyson Germinder is a proud ECD and a Kansas City native. She graduated this May with her M.A. in Theatre from University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she focused on dramaturgy in the Kansas City community. She holds a B.A.
Bio: Martine Kei Green-Rogers is an Assistant Professor in the Theatre Department at the University of Utah. Her PhD is from the Department of Theatre and Drama at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and she also has a B.A. in Theatre from Virginia Wesleyan College and a M.A. in Theatre History and Criticism from The Catholic University of America.
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 festiva
Bio: Jacqueline Goldfinger is currently the Playwright-in-Residence at AzukaTheatre in Philadelphia and teaches playwriting and dramaturgy at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of the Arts. Her new comedy, Trish Tinkler Gets Saved, will world premiere at the Women’s Voices Festival in Washington DC this fall.
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas to Receive National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Award is among 1,023 Made Nationally
[May 7, 2015] Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.
