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 Have you ever been asked to document a production? Has it fallen to you to keep a history of the theatre’s productions, or the history of the theatre itself? 

Every day, we're giving, getting, tabling, and otherwise navigating feedback. But how well?  With what casualties?  To what yelps of joyous breakthrough? In the hottest town hall event of the fall season you are invited to join fellow dramaturgs, literary managers, playwrights, directors and others with a zeal for creating work in open and collaborative environments. We will be admitting and addressing that with collaboration comes a range of differing perspectives, potential pitfalls and the possibility of vibrant, passionate, mind expanding art.

Bring your stories of what has worked brilliantly in the past and where you fell on your face. We’ll make the space for the burning questions you’ve never asked, the beefs you need to get off your chest and some brilliant soliloquizing about what everyone in the American theater should be doing better.

Bring your opinions; we’ll provide the soapbox.

Oct 26, from 2:30-5 p.m. at HERE Arts Center (145 6th Avenue at Spring Street)
Feel free to drop in for a bit or be there the whole time.
Moderated by Morgan Jenness

At Soho Rep, Raphael Martin wanted to crack open the world of the play and invite people into it, and the result was Feed: “thematic live events, multimedia and publications that give you something to chew on before and after the show.” You can catch the multimedia portion at http://sohorep.org/?cat=4

On July 17, starting at 6 p.m. at Abrams Agency (275 7th Ave # 26  New York, NY 10001) we will be having an LMDA discussion that is open to all members and people interested in LMDA. We'll be discussing plans for NYC this upcoming year, the new employment guidelines (http://www.lmda.org/resources/employmentguidelines) and more. Feel free to pop in and out, but please rsvp to Leah Hamos at Leah.Hamos@abramsartny.com.

On Monday, Sept 12, LMDA members visited the  Lark Play Development Center, where we met up with Suzy Fay and Andrea Hiebler.

You can read some notes of the visit, taken by Martha Steketee, on her blog.