carlynaquiline

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Carlyn Aquiline

    Literary Manager and Dramaturg
    City Theatre Company
    Pittsburgh,  PA

http://www.citytheatrecompany.org ( Work )

CARLYN AQUILINE is Literary Manager and Dramaturg at City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh, PA, where she oversees play acquisition, commissioning, and development, along with production, new play, and Young Playwrights Festival dramaturgy, and audience enrichment features. She’s also part of the producing teams for MOMENTUM: new plays at different stages (the theatre’s annual new play festival) and the Young Playwrights Festival (full productions of plays by 7th-12th graders from Western PA). She has dramaturgy credits at Goodspeed Musicals (where she was Literary Manager and Producing Associate, primarily for Goodspeed-at-Chester's new musical premieres), Syracuse Stage (where she was Artistic Associate), Yale Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Arden Theatre, TheatreWorks, Florida Stage, and Actor’s Express. She is Special Faculty in dramatic writing and dramaturgy at Carnegie Mellon University, and has taught at Yale, Ohio, and Syracuse universities. She was Managing Editor of the international journal THEATER, supervising operations and production, and editing articles and plays by numerous distinguished writers, critics, and theatre artists of the contemporary theatre. Carlyn has been a panelist and play evaluator for the NEA/TCG Residency Program for Playwrights, the O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference, the Playwrights’ Center’s McKnight Advancement Grant, the Heinz Endowments Small Arts Initiative, and the American College Theater Festival. She was an adjudicator for LMDA’s Dramaturg Driven Project Grants, and formerly served on the editorial advisory committee of the LMDA REVIEW. Carlyn is a graduate of The Catholic University of America (BFA, directing), Ohio University (MA, theatre history), and Yale School of Drama (MFA, dramaturgy and dramatic criticism).