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Bree Rothbart

Job Title: Freelance Dramaturg and Theatre Theorist
Organization affiliation:

Sacred Chaos Project

Location: Flourtown, PA
Member since: 1999
Education:

B.A. Liberal Arts Sarah Lawrence College 1989
MA Drama Stanford University 2007

Biography:

Bree Rothbart is currently working as a freelance dramaturg and theater theorist. They graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1989. From 1992-1997 they performed and toured with The Living Theatre. In 1994, Brad became one of the original members of the RAT Conference, a loose association of alternative theaters across the United States. 1995 brought an opportunity to perform and present at the ThisAbility Conference in Ann Arbor, a conference that spawned the seminal disability arts film, Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back.

During the 1999-2000 theater season, Brad created and curated a reading series called Underground Voices: From the Marginalized to the Transgressive at Theatre Double in Philadelphia. The series presented under-heard American playwrights who are dedicated to stretching the boundaries of the theatrical experience. TheatreForum published Brad's academic essay Ahistoricity, Multiplicity and Velocity: Radical Discontinuity and its Effects on the Dramaturgical Process in TF 21 (Summer/Fall 2001). They graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with an MA in Drama. Their essay, Once More Unto The Breach: An Anatomized Philippic Regarding the Relationship of Disability to the Contemporary American Theatre, was published by American Theatre in October 2015.

Areas of Expertise:

Post-modern textual adventures, contemporary playwrights, multidisciplinary work, cabaret, the piece that makes everyone else go, "Huh?" I am also happy to look at playwright applications for grants, fellowships, and residencies, as I've been a reviewer /evaluator for many years.

Language(s) spoken:

English and German.

Recent Work:

Theatre, music and cabaret reviewer for Broad Street Review in Philadelphia.

https://www.broadstreetreview.com/authors/brad-rothbart

Application reviewer and evaluator for multiple national-level grants, fellowships, and residencies.

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