What is Dramaturgy? Some Answers From Our Members:

Bridging, advocating, articulating, needling, nurturing, challenging, welcoming. And forever defining and redefining.

-- Danielle Mages Amato, Literary Manager/Dramaturg at The Old Globe

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: David Copelin

    Freelance Dramaturg, Playwright & Translator

    Vancouver, BC

I'm a founding member and former President of LMDA. I am also a freelance dramaturg, playwright, translator, and teacher. I've worked at the Mark Taper Forum, New Dramatists, the Phoenix Theatre, Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Marin Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, and several universities in the US and Canada. Currently, I am writing my own plays, and translating plays by Carl Sternheim and Stephane Brulotte.