Please join us in New York City from June 25-27th, 2015, for the 30th anniversary conference. We’ll be at Columbia University, which is located on Broadway and 116th Street.
Our conference hotel is the Marrakech Hotel, and they are holding a block of rooms under LMDA. It’s less than a ten-minute walk from the conference site. Rooms are running about $200 a night, including those with two beds. There is a flight of stairs leading to the lobby.
LMDA is pleased to partner with The Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center CUNY to present an evening of "Urban Dramaturgy."
Urban dramaturgy plays with the structure, rhythm, and flow of the city to enact new stories of what our cities are and for whom. There are a myriad of artists, housed by cultural institutions and art venues, taking up urban space and showcasing new and exciting approaches to framing the city.
LMDA is proud to announce the 10th annual offering of travel grants to Early Career Dramaturgs for this summer’s conference in New York.
Criteria for selection of an Early Career/Student Dramaturg:
· Applicant is no more than 2 years out of either a graduate or undergraduate program.
· Applicant is not an employee of a professional theatre organization (interns are welcome to apply).
· Applicant would unlikely be able to attend the LMDA conference without this assistance.
· Applicant is an LMDA member.
Bio: Elyse Griffin is an early career freelance dramaturg based in Los Angeles and the Literary Director for Rose & Rue Theatre Company (a new company she's co-creating with two other amazing women theatre artists).
Bio: Brian Quirt is the Artistic Director of Nightswimming, which has commissioned and developed more than 30 new plays, dance works and musical pieces since 1995.
On February 9, 2015, the Dramatists Guild Utah-Idaho Region and the Rockies Region of LMDA gathered at the University of Utah’s Babcock Theatre to “discuss similar and differing points of view on our shared world of theatre.” On the Dramatists Guild (DG) side, Julie Jensen, helped organize and recruit people from DG to come to the event, on the LMDA side, I helped organize and recruit people to attend.
Bio: Kevin O'Connell is a freelance theatre professional in the Washington, DC area. He holds a master's degree in dramaturgy from the Catholic University of America. He has served as dramaturg on several new works and on radio adaptations of a number of Shakespeare plays.
Bio: Catherine Miller is a Chicago based freelance dramaturg who simultaneously works in New York and San Diego. Receiving her BFA in Dramaturgy/Criticism with a minor in Women and Gender Studies from The Theatre School at DePaul University in June 2014, she currently serves as casting director for Redtwist Theatre, where she also dramaturgs.
Bio: Zita Nyarady is a Canadian dance, theatre and circus artist. She is also a PhD candidate in Theatre & Performance studies at York University. She has worked in projects with Anandam Dance Theatre, Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Alumnea Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille. Upcoming for Zita is a new micro play, Philip and Lucinda, at the Toronto Festival of Clowns, a Canadian fringe festival tour of new work by Natalie Frijia and continued exploration of circus dramaturgy.
