Tentative LMDA 40th Anniversary Conference Schedule
Wednesday, June 25
- All Day:
- Volunteer orientation
- Participants/attendees start arriving
- 3–6 PM: Board meeting
- Eureka Bar:
- The Dramaturgical Methodology of Make the Dream Real (60 mins)
- Presenters: Karen Jean Martinson and Robert Lopez
- The Dramaturgical Methodology of Make the Dream Real (60 mins)
- Evening Options:
- Optional show at CECUT
Thursday, June 26
At SDSU
- 10:00 AM: Registration opens
- 10:30 AM:
- Room A: 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
- Syndey Seymour: Dramaturgy as Undoing
- Room B: Experimentation in Dramaturgy presentation session (90 mins):
- Kristi Good: Illuminating Dramaturgy with Generative AI
- Brian Quirt & Gloria Mok: Pure Research: Dramaturging Experiments to Influence Performance & Institutional Culture
- Room C: 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
- Room A: Theories of Theatre presentation session (60 mins):
At CECUT
- 9:30 AM: Registration opens
- 10:00 AM:
- Room B: Workshop: ¿En dónde cabe la figura dramaturgista? / Where does a dramaturg fit? (120 mins)
- Presenters: Martha Herrera-Lasso and Rina Rajlevsky (bilingual)
- Room B: Workshop: ¿En dónde cabe la figura dramaturgista? / Where does a dramaturg fit? (120 mins)
- 11 AM:
- Room A: Panel: Case Study in Conversation to Candid Conversations: An LMDA Evolution
- Presenters: Jenna Rodgers with Anne G Morgan and Liana Irvine
- Room A: Panel: Case Study in Conversation to Candid Conversations: An LMDA Evolution
Shared Events
- Noon:
- Welcome new LMDA members
- Lunch out
- 1 PM:
- Welcome (President, Board Chairs, Conference Co-hosts)
- Kumeyaay people: Land acknowledgement/blessing/artistic offering
- 40th Anniversary Kickoff
- 2:30 PM: Coffee/Tea and Meet-and-Greet
- 3:15 PM: Keynote dialogue with Ramón Verdugo (at CECUT, broadcast live to SDSU)
- 4:30 PM: Keynote dialogue with Jeremy Cohen and Maria Patrice Amon, in dialogue with Danielle Mages Amato (at SDSU, broadcast live to CECUT)
At SDSU
- 6:00 PM
- Plenary Panel: Charting the Infrastructure: A New Way to Explore Plays
- Alex Vermillion with Sally Cade Holmes, Miriam Laube, and Lue Douthit
- Alex Vermillion with Sally Cade Holmes, Miriam Laube, and Lue Douthit
- Plenary Panel: Charting the Infrastructure: A New Way to Explore Plays
- 7:30 PM:
- Networking Event: Beach Bonfire
- Meet and Greet with playwrights
- Networking Event: Beach Bonfire
- 10:00 PM:
- Night cap at Conference Bar
At CECUT
- 6:00 PM
- Plenary Panel: Celebration de Luis Valdez
- Michael M Chemers with Analola Santana, and TBA (bilingual presentation)
- Plenary Panel: Celebration de Luis Valdez
- 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
- 9:00 AM
- Registration opens at the info desk
- 10:00 AM
- Plenary Panel: Tijuana Theatre Companies
- Moderated by Valeria Vega
- Plenary Panel: Tijuana Theatre Companies
- 11:50 AM
- Room A: Workshop: Kit de Escucha Dramática / The Dramatic Listening kit
- Bruno Zamudio (en Espanol)
- Room C: Workshop: Growing Literacy Through Theatrical Means
- Laura Rodriguez Sierra (bilingual)
- Larger Room: Panel: Local Efforts Exploring Mexican Playwrights, Latine Artist Development, and Cross-Border Collaboration
- Daniel Jáquez with Valeria Vega, Daniel Serrano, and Gaspar Orozco
- Room A: Workshop: Kit de Escucha Dramática / The Dramatic Listening kit
- 1:30 PM Regional Lunches
- 2:50 PM
- Room A: Presentation Session: All the World’s a Stage
- Jazmín Cato Sosa: Una dramaturgista en televisión
- Yoall Morales Uribe: Imaginarios: Un puente de encuentro entre el teatro comunitario y la creación escénica
- Adriana Itamar Dominguez Muñoz ¿Cómo hacer una máscara transfronteriza?
- Room B: Workshop: Dramaturgy World Café
- Juliet Chia with Kemi King and Emma Bilderback
- Room C: Panel: Building the New Play Pipeline: Literary Management as Creative Infrastructure
- Anne G. Morgan with Brian Quirt, Danielle Mages Amato, and TBA
- Room A: Presentation Session: All the World’s a Stage
- 4:10 PM
- Plenary Event: Simon 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
- TuYo Theatre's Pásale Pásale: a new immersive musical
- Sala Federico Campbell Auditorium: Performance & Presentation
- 10:00 PM
- Bus returns to SDSU
At SDSU
- 9:00 AM
- Bus departs from SDSU to CECUT
- 10:00 AM
- Site-Specific Option: Self-Guided Tour
- 11:15 AM
- Panel discussion: Using the Infrastructure of Higher Education for New Play Development
- Sarah Johnson with Sheridan Schreyer, Spencer Fields, and Megan Gray Lederman
- Panel discussion: Using the Infrastructure of Higher Education for New Play Development
- 1:30 PM
- Networking and Conversation Circles
- 2:50 PM
- Workshop: Text, Testimony, and Theatricality: Dramaturgical Strategies for Documentary Performance (60 mins)
- Presenter: Shelley Graham
- Workshop: Text, Testimony, and Theatricality: Dramaturgical Strategies for Documentary Performance (60 mins)
- 5:00 PM Dinner Out
- 6:30 PM
- Optional Site Specific Performance: 59 Acres: A Speculative Soundwalk by Marike Splint at UCSD near La Jolla Playhouse
- 30 mins; bring cell phone with headphones
- Optional Site Specific Performance: 59 Acres: A Speculative Soundwalk by Marike Splint at UCSD near La Jolla Playhouse
- 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
- 9:00 AM
- Room B: Panel: LMDA Debut Panel
- Presenters: KJ Martinson and Dan Smith
- Room C: 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
- Room B: Panel: LMDA Debut Panel
- 10:15 AM
- Room A: Panel: Potato Chip Dramaturgy
- Presenter: Lindsey L. Barr
- Room B: 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
- Room A: Panel: Potato Chip Dramaturgy
- 11:30 AM
- Hattox Hall: Hot Topics!
- 1:00 PM
- Lunchtime Discussion Options:
- 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
- Craig Noel Garden: Dramaturgy and Devising: CFP Release
- Lunchtime Discussion Options:
- 2:00 PM
- Optional Show: The Janeiad by Anna Ziegler at The Old Globe
- 2:15 PM
- Room A: Panel: Hip Hop it Don't Stop: an exploration of outreach and development
- Wind Dell Woods with Crystal Mercado Rosure and Yari Cervas
- Room B: Panel: History and Historical Research as Dramaturgical Infrastructure: A Two-Part Panel
- Caitlin A. Kane with Khalid Y. Long, Lindsey Barr, and Daphnie Sicre
- Room C: Presentation Session: Artistic Success
- 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 Specialist
- Grace Evanoff: The Art of Access
- Room A: Panel: Hip Hop it Don't Stop: an exploration of outreach and development
- 3:45 PM
- 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
- 8:00 AM
- Bus departs from CECUT to The Old Globe
- 9:00 AM
- Suggestions for a Self-Guided Tour
- 10:00 AM
- Panel: Celebration and Book Discussion: Luz Testigo: Dramaturgismo en Mexico
- Michael M Chemers with Analola Santana and Martha Herrera-Lasso (bilingual presentation)
- Panel: Celebration and Book Discussion: Luz Testigo: Dramaturgismo en Mexico
- 5:15 PM
- Dinner/Bar Meetup with speeches/celebration for those not attending the banquet