Feb 20-26: Sarah Brew

Feb 20-26: Sarah Brew  

Focus: “This week, I'll be tweeting as I intern at Soho Rep in NYC, turn in the final draft of my MFA thesis (!), do my grad school coursework from afar, train for figure skating, and perhaps work up the courage to play my ukulele at an open mic night.”

Bio: Sarah Brew is pursuing her M.F.A. in dramaturgy in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts, where she has focused her course of study on the translation of Spanish Golden Age drama. She earned her B.A. in English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2008, though she spent most of her time cloistering herself away in the theater department. Sarah also recently finished Love the Doctor--the first-ever English-language translation/adaptation of Tirso de Molina's El Amor Médico (c. 1621)--which got its world premiere at UMass last October, and was recently published in The Mercurian.Sarah's other interests include Shakespeare, new play dramaturgy and digiturgy. She has most recently assisted and worked on dramaturgical projects at Hartford Stage, and is currently the literary intern at Soho Rep in NYC.

Questions from LMDA

What is your definition of dramaturgy?:

“Dramaturgy is all the in-betweens of a production, project, script, theatre--the glue that keeps parts connected. One is practicing dramaturgy when attentively listening, constantly questioning, boldly imagining. ”

What is your dream project?:

“My dream project is one that blends my love of the literary and the physical (in the same way that figure skating blends art with sport). And hopefully that dream project would require that I be in Chicago. Or somewhere in the middle of the Rocky Mountains.