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. Her recent dramaturgical credits include: Waiting for Godot, Iphigenia in Aulis, Seven Guitars, Mountaintop, Home and Porgy and Bess at the Court Theatre (Chicago, IL), The Clean House at CATCO (Columbus, OH), Comedy of Errors, To Kill A Mockingbird, The African Company Presents Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Fences at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, OR). Her most recent publication is the article "Talkbacks for ‘Sensitive Subject Matter’ Productions: The Theory and Practice" in the Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy.

"Focus" for the week: I am working on a few projects this week. I am consulting for two director friends of mine (one is working on Henry V in Houston and the other is looking at an adaptation of the film His Girl Friday in the Bay Area). I am also meeting with a playwright friend of mine in Salt Lake to give some thoughts/feedback on his newest draft of a play I heard at a reading a couple of months ago at Plan-B Theatre.

Questions from LMDA:

What is your definition of dramaturgy? Ha! This is always hard for me. There is always the "keeper of the story," "the advocate for the playwright" and a host of other definitions. I think I am going to direct everyone to the TDF definition (since - shameless plug - Beth Blickers and I wrote the essay that accompanies it).