Monday, June 10, 2013
This speech was presented at the opening session of the Audience Engagement track at this year’s TCG Conference in Dallas, June 6-8, 2013. The conference was designed on an academic th…
Linked From 2AMT at 05:19PMMonday, May 20, 2013
There’s been a lot of talk online recently about the need for women playwrights to be better represented, have more opportunities, and be, if you’ll excuse the vagary, more equal. That…
Linked From 2AMT at 03:38PMSunday, May 12, 2013
I have a sad, stupid, bureaucratic little story to tell you — No, wait, come back! I work as a facilitator, teacher and director with Rehabilitation Through the Arts . RTA started at Sing …
Linked From 2AMT at 01:03PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
We resume the Dramaturg Spotlight interviews today with words of wisdom from LaRonika Thomas. I admire LaRonika and her work, so I am delighted to present her voice in this forum. I enjoy wh…
Linked From 2AMT at 05:01PMMonday, March 25, 2013
Asking and giving. Three videos and a question. First, Peter Sagal on letting people access the joy of giving. Next, Amanda Palmer on the art of asking. And finally, Adam Thurman on the gift…
Linked From 2AMT at 12:58PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
If you have sat around a computer for any length of time over the last five years hashing out any of the ‘issues’ around (particularly) American Theatre you have found yourself invariabl…
Linked From 2AMT at 12:38AMThursday, March 14, 2013
Julie Felise Dubiner is one of my heroes. I first heard about her advocacy, fantastic dramaturgical skills, and undeniable sense of humor in 2003 from a friend who had been her intern. I loo…
Linked From 2AMT at 03:49PMFriday, March 8, 2013
Thesis: The American Theatre Movement has had a tendency to define itself partly by what it is not – distancing itself from community theatre and mere entertainment. This distancing sh…
Linked From 2AMT at 01:55PMThursday, March 7, 2013
Today we feature David Copelin, a renaissance man with international flair. David is a dramaturg, playwright, academic, story consultant, translator, and a citizen of both Canada and the Uni…
Linked From 2AMT at 04:36PMThursday, February 28, 2013
I am based in the DC area, and for the past few weeks, every evening that I travel from the district into Virginia or vice versa, I enjoy the blue and purple tones reminiscent of the Norther…
Linked From 2AMT at 02:01PMThursday, February 21, 2013
For many viewers, this week’s episode of Smash was their first introduction to the word dramaturg. Unfortunately for the TV show’s musical, Bombshell, (and for those of us who ne…
Linked From 2AMT at 02:09PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Thesis: Introducing bold new kinds of productions will require change. Change can be frightening. This post is basically a sermon intended to help beat back the fear. “How do you give In t…
Linked From 2AMT at 05:30PMThursday, February 14, 2013
Today’s Spotlight shines on Jaz Dorsey, a Southern gentleman whose presence and charm I first noticed on the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) listserv. Jaz alway…
Linked From 2AMT at 06:41PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Thesis: Celebrity is one of the strongest social forces in America. Increasingly, though, people are responding to apparently oxymoronic “Narrow fame;” that is, being highly salient for …
Linked From 2AMT at 03:17PMTuesday, February 12, 2013
You may know Adam Thurman from his TEDx talks at TEDxMichiganAvenue and TEDxBroadway. I hope you know him from his website, Mission Paradox. And I hope you’ll get to know him at the fi…
Linked From 2AMT at 09:51AMMonday, February 11, 2013
A shade more than two years ago, David Loehr and I met during a gathering at Arena Stage. He encouraged me to do some writing for this web site. Since that time, this is the 20th post I’ve…
Linked From 2AMT at 03:32PMThursday, February 7, 2013
Introducing the dedicated and creative dramaturg Walter Byongsok Chon! Hometown: I was born in Bonn, Germany, lived there until I was eight, and then moved to Korea. I came to America to ent…
Linked From 2AMT at 02:58PMThesis: Skills in event creation and performance can be applied to marketing appropriately and effectively. If stunt marketing is selling out, it is selling out in a very classy way. I was i…
Linked From 2AMT at 09:52AMMonday, February 4, 2013
I grew up in a household that was… healthy. Healthy healthy. Lima (bean) burgers, grinding grain blends for homemade bread, fresh milk from family friends who ran a small farm… my folks …
Linked From 2AMT at 02:50PMThesis: Holding the idea that artists are different in kind from non-artists may create a barrier that discourages non-artists from attending or engaging with your work. Choosing to believe …
Linked From 2AMT at 12:48PMSaturday, February 2, 2013
Thesis: You can learn more when you innovate if you adopt a few concepts from the scientific method. In my experience, plenty of people in the American Theatre innovate frequently. Whether t…
Linked From 2AMT at 05:08PMFriday, February 1, 2013
Thesis: People with whom you have some relationship are far more likely to attend your work than are total strangers. I am aware of two major movements within marketing over the last century…
Linked From 2AMT at 04:44PMThursday, January 31, 2013
Today we continue our second week of dramaturgical conversations with an interview with the accomplished Maren Robinson of Chicago. I think it is safe to say that Maren is eventually going t…
Linked From 2AMT at 02:20PMFriday, January 25, 2013
Today I am happy to present an interview with my colleague and friend Hannah Hessel. Since dramaturgs typically collaborate with artists in other disciplines, we do not always have a chance …
Linked From 2AMT at 03:04PMThursday, January 24, 2013
What IS a dramaturg? As a professional dramaturg and literary manager, this is the question I’m asked most often. Today, my answer is far different from it was when I first started pra…
Linked From 2AMT at 12:41PMMonday, January 7, 2013
The DC Theatre community took a hit recently when Artisphere announced that due to a policy change its resident theatre company WSC Avant Bard would be kicked out in the middle of its season…
Linked From 2AMT at 01:45PMSaturday, December 22, 2012
Terror and Courage, Hope and Art We can’t claim to engage our communities in important conversations if we run away from them One of the plays to generate the most interest at our recent N…
Linked From 2AMT at 05:49PMThursday, December 20, 2012
Thesis: Your available work time is completely taken up doing things the way you do them now. You have no time to try something new. All these ideas are worthless if you never have time to a…
Linked From 2AMT at 04:55PMIn the spring of this past year, my day job sent me to the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Vegas. We have been hearing for a while hat the way people consume entertainment…
Linked From 2AMT at 03:53PMTuesday, December 18, 2012
Thesis: If your productions aren’t getting the word-of-mouth support you hope for, you may be able to take action to shape the word-of-mouth. Most companies who survey members to learn why…
Linked From 2AMT at 04:04PMMonday, December 17, 2012
Thesis: Adherents to a hobby define their relationship to a hobby partly through swag – collectibles and ephemera related to their activity. Theatre companies could create swag around thei…
Linked From 2AMT at 03:36PM 
