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2014 LMDA Residencies Announced

Carina Gaspar and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Receive 2014 LMDA Residency Grants

At its 2013 conference, The Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) announced an extraordinary gift: LMDA longtime member, Lessing Award winner and former Board Chair Mark Bly is awarding the organization a $100,000 Creative Capacity Grant to allow LMDA to expand its artistic work.

Jimmy Noriega Receives 2013 Elliott Hayes...

At the 2013 Conference in Vancouver, BC, LMDA awarded the Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Dramaturgy in North America to Jimmy Noriega for his work on Mother of Exiles.

2014 Conference City Announced

Join us in Boston from June 26-29, 2014!

What is Dramaturgy? Some Answers From Our Members:

"I keep trying to whittle this down to a sentence and, depending on my audience, it seems to be a very malleable sentence. I've offered "interdisciplinary research and outreach hub for a theater production" to non-theater colleagues at my institution. But in conversation with a filmmaker the other day, she observed how connected dramaturgy seemed to be with "advocacy," so this week I'm trying out this one-line definition: Dramaturgy is artistic advocacy connecting audiences and productions in ways that provide context, expand experience, and spur conversation."

-- Jules Odendahl-James, Visiting Lecturer and the Resident Dramaturg at Duke University

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CFP: Hot Topics for LMDA 2014

The University Caucus of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas will once again sponsor a Hot Topics session at the next annual conference in Boston, MA, on Thursday, June 26, 2014, from 3 to 4:30pm. Hot Topics invites all LMDA members (not academics only) to present, in 5 minutes, an idea or project that passionately engages you right now.

We are happy to write to your dean or department chair in support of your application for funds to attend the conference. If you have a topic, and would like to be on the schedule, please get in touch with Geoff Proehl (gproehl@pugetsound.edu), Bryan Moore (orionbcm@yahoo.com), or Lee Devin (ldevin1@swarthmore.edu) right away. Spots are limited, so please contact us as soon as possible.

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Lessing Quote Winners

It's a tie! Based on a membership vote, LMDA is recognizing both Mike Lew and Lauren Feldman for the "I love my dramaturg because...." quotes they submitted for the Lessing Week contest. Both Mike and Lauren will receive a complimentary membership to LMDA for 2014.

A special thank you to everyone who sent in a quote. To see all the entires, click here:

And here are the winning quotes:

Mike Lew, playwright:

"I love my dramaturg because she stores more info than Google, promotes me more widely than Twitter, airbrushes me better than Photoshop, and defends me like an unrelenting Facebook rant."

Lauren Feldman, playwright:

"I love my dramaturg because she gave me a lake and the sound of the loons
and a cabin and a table and some quiet and some time,

she gave me all these things, plus the shoes on her feet,

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Now Accepting Elliot Hayes Award Applications

Every year at its annual conference, LMDA honors a dramaturg with the Elliot Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy. If you are, or have worked with, a dramaturg on a project that is eligible for this award, please consider an application. All information on the award, and the application, is available here.

CFP: Theatre Topics Special Issue on Dramaturgy

THEATRE TOPICS CFP

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