From LMDA President Beth Blickers:
I'm delighted to invite you all to New York City June 25-28, 2015. Please mark your calendars and plan to join us!
More details will be forthcoming about housing/conference location/etc.
I'm very excited to welcome you all to my adopted home town and share off some of what New York has to offer.
NEW! LMDA Coffee Break
NEW DATE
Spend one hour chatting with Canada's leading dramaturgs. Each session features a guest artist who will share their expertise on a hot topic in our field. These sessions are a great opportunity to swap ideas and inspirations across the country. Open to all members of LMDA Canada.
Digital Dramaturgy
LMDA is delighted to be continuing our relationship with Fractured Atlas and to extend to all of our members the opportunity for a one year free membership in their Open Arts Network. For more information about what Fractured Atlas is, and the services they provide, please go here.
The introduction to the new The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy is now available online. Check out the beginning of the volume that features articles from institutional, academic, and freelance dramaturgs from around the world.
Do you like having seed money to support that project? Then Dramaturg Driven grants just might be for you!
LMDA is currently accepting applications for the 2014 Dramaturg Driven grant. For full details, including application process, please go here. Deadline is Oct 1st.
Take a trip down memory lane with the 5th and final article.... Throughout July, 2014, five festival Dramaturgs revealed their conversations with company leaders of Raw Materials Programs, the works-in-progress series of the FURY Factory festival, which performed at San Francisco’s Project Artaud July 6-20, 2014. LMDA in partnership with foolsFURY—produced by LMDA Regional VP’s Nakissa Etemad & Scott Horstein—provided the festival match between dramaturgs & Raw Materials companies. In addition to these company profiles, Dramaturgs ran talkbacks at their Program’s second performance. For more info on the 2016 FURY Factory festival, tickets, and our current partnership, visit www.foolsfury.org
At their 2014 Conference in Boston, MA, the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas presented the Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy to Ilana Brownstein for her advocacy work in dramaturgy, including her roles as Founding Dramaturg of Playwrights’ Commons, the Director of New Work and dramaturgy mentor at Company One Theatre and as a public advocate for justice and equality in the theatre. She is only the second two-time winner, and first received the honor in 2008 for her creation of the Hun
