The Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive 2022
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is celebrating its eleventh annual Dramaturgy Intensive, virtually, July 14-17, 2022
Lead Mentor:
Mark Bly Director and Co-Founder of the Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive
Description of the Program: Concentrated daily workshops on Zoom led by Mark Bly and guest teaching artists. In recent years, guests have included Jesse Cameron Alick, Lenora Inez Brown, Analisa Dias, Julie Felise Dubiner, Adrien-Alice Hansel, Heather Helinsky, Lexy Leuszler, Drew Lichtenberg, Anne G. Morgan, Martine Kei Green Rogers, Lynde Rosario, Phaedra Scott, and Gavin Witt. In past years the workshops have reexamined the role of the Dramaturg in society; focused decolonization, anti-racism, racial injustice, anti-bias, both classical and new play production casebooks, digital dramaturgy, new play development and advocacy, blog theatre criticism, rehearsal protocols; new play dramaturgy note giving process; and introduced to the participants alternate careers in dramaturgy or how a Dramaturg can do more than “dramaturg.”
Eligibility:
Eligible participants are current university students [undergraduate or graduate and recent graduates] entering the field. A limited number of places in the program will be held for faculty. It is anticipated that up-to sixteen participants will be invited.
Schedule:
Each day’s schedule of up-to four contact hours will be determined by careful time-zone coordination with the invited participants.
Tuition:
$150.00
To Apply:
- Answer the following short-answer questions:
- Please introduce yourself (as a dramaturg) to us and tell us why you are interested in the practice of Dramaturgy. Why does it matter to you? (250 word max)
- What skills are you interested in developing during the KC Dramaturgy Intensive? (250 word max)
- Please upload a résumé of your work as a dramaturg and theatre artist.
- Upload a sample (or samples) of critical or dramaturgical writing, up to ten pages in length.
- By June 5, 2022
Every effort will be made to notify Invited Participants by June 15, 2022.
For any questions or concerns, please contact Gregg Henry Artistic Director KCACTF, or GHenry@kennedy-center.org
Mark Bly has intersected with diverse communities across the country in resident theaters, colleges and on Broadway championing inclusion and equity among collaborators for the past 35 years, working as a dramaturg, producer, teacher, and advocate for new plays and playwrights. He has worked as a production dramaturg for the world premieres and American premieres of new plays by Suzan Lori-Parks (The America Play at Yale Rep and The Public 1994), Sarah Ruhl (The Passion Play, A Cycle, Arena Stage, 2005) Rajiv Joseph (Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Alley Theater, 2009), Moises Kaufman (33 Variations, Arena Stage (2007), and on Broadway with Emily Mann (Execution of Justice, 1986) and Moises Kaufman (33 Variations, 2009). Bly has dramaturged for Tony Award winning directors Doug Hughes, Daniel Sullivan, Robert Falls, Rebecca Taichman and Obie Award-winning directors David Cromer, and JoAnne Akalaitis. He has recently crossed disciplines as Producing Associate Artist/Dramaturgy for the new Brazilian film Ecstasy (2020) which had its United States premiere at MOMA. Bly was Director of the MFA Playwriting Program at Yale School of Drama from 1992-2004 while also teaching dramaturgy courses and serving as the Associate Artistic Director at the Yale Rep. Bly edited and contributed to Yale Theater, “American Production Dramaturgs” (1986), a collection of seminal interviews with many of our foremost dramaturgs and literary managers. He subsequently authored the trailblazing series Production Notebooks: Theatre in Process: Volumes 1 & 2 featuring the work of eight major dramaturgs. In 1985 he co-founded Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of Americas and became the Board President for LMDA in 2001-2006. Bly was invited to co-lead the first ever LMDA delegation to a Mexico arts conference (Puerta de las Americas Festival) generating an international dialogue and exchange of resources among artists and scholars that continues today. In 2014 he created and funded the LMDA Bly Creative Capacity Grant/Fellowship Program supporting eighteen international projects that advanced the practice of dramaturgy ranging from injecting contemporary astronomy with dramaturgical narratives, dramaturgy that broke down indigenous barriers, and promoting digital dramaturgy. He has been a member of “LMDA Dramaturging the Phoenix Forum” and “LMDA Anti-Racism Task Force” since 2020. In 2011 Bly co-founded with Gregg Henry and is the Director for the international Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive Program. He has also served as a Playwriting Workshop Leader there since 2002. In 2010 Bly received the LMDA Gotthold Lessing Lifetime Achievement Award in Dramaturgy at Banff in Canada. He received in 2019 the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Medallion for Lifetime Excellence in Dramaturgy for his work for shaping and championing dramaturgy in American theater. His latest book New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21stCentury Playwriting features nine unique play prompts featuring playwrights Bly mentored with who have gone on to have major careers in theater and media including Ken Lin, Lindsey Ferrentino, Marcus Gardley, Sarah Treem, and Rolin Jones.
For any questions or concerns, please contact Gregg Henry, Artistic Director of KCACTF, at GHenry@kennedy-center.org
The Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive 2022
The Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive 2022
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is celebrating its eleventh annual Dramaturgy Intensive, virtually, July 14-17, 2022
Lead Mentor:
Mark Bly Director and Co-Founder of the Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive
Description of the Program: Concentrated daily workshops on Zoom led by Mark Bly and guest teaching artists. In recent years, guests have included Jesse Cameron Alick, Lenora Inez Brown, Analisa Dias, Julie Felise Dubiner, Adrien-Alice Hansel, Heather Helinsky, Lexy Leuszler, Drew Lichtenberg, Anne G. Morgan, Martine Kei Green Rogers, Lynde Rosario, Phaedra Scott, and Gavin Witt. In past years the workshops have reexamined the role of the Dramaturg in society; focused decolonization, anti-racism, racial injustice, anti-bias, both classical and new play production casebooks, digital dramaturgy, new play development and advocacy, blog theatre criticism, rehearsal protocols; new play dramaturgy note giving process; and introduced to the participants alternate careers in dramaturgy or how a Dramaturg can do more than “dramaturg.”
Eligibility:
Eligible participants are current university students [undergraduate or graduate and recent graduates] entering the field. A limited number of places in the program will be held for faculty. It is anticipated that up-to sixteen participants will be invited.
Schedule:
Each day’s schedule of up-to four contact hours will be determined by careful time-zone coordination with the invited participants.
Tuition:
$150.00
To Apply:
- Answer the following short-answer questions:
- Please introduce yourself (as a dramaturg) to us and tell us why you are interested in the practice of Dramaturgy. Why does it matter to you? (250 word max)
- What skills are you interested in developing during the KC Dramaturgy Intensive? (250 word max)
- Please upload a résumé of your work as a dramaturg and theatre artist.
- Upload a sample (or samples) of critical or dramaturgical writing, up to ten pages in length.
- By June 5, 2022
Every effort will be made to notify Invited Participants by June 15, 2022.
For any questions or concerns, please contact Gregg Henry Artistic Director KCACTF, or GHenry@kennedy-center.org
Mark Bly has intersected with diverse communities across the country in resident theaters, colleges and on Broadway championing inclusion and equity among collaborators for the past 35 years, working as a dramaturg, producer, teacher, and advocate for new plays and playwrights. He has worked as a production dramaturg for the world premieres and American premieres of new plays by Suzan Lori-Parks (The America Play at Yale Rep and The Public 1994), Sarah Ruhl (The Passion Play, A Cycle, Arena Stage, 2005) Rajiv Joseph (Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Alley Theater, 2009), Moises Kaufman (33 Variations, Arena Stage (2007), and on Broadway with Emily Mann (Execution of Justice, 1986) and Moises Kaufman (33 Variations, 2009). Bly has dramaturged for Tony Award winning directors Doug Hughes, Daniel Sullivan, Robert Falls, Rebecca Taichman and Obie Award-winning directors David Cromer, and JoAnne Akalaitis. He has recently crossed disciplines as Producing Associate Artist/Dramaturgy for the new Brazilian film Ecstasy (2020) which had its United States premiere at MOMA. Bly was Director of the MFA Playwriting Program at Yale School of Drama from 1992-2004 while also teaching dramaturgy courses and serving as the Associate Artistic Director at the Yale Rep. Bly edited and contributed to Yale Theater, “American Production Dramaturgs” (1986), a collection of seminal interviews with many of our foremost dramaturgs and literary managers. He subsequently authored the trailblazing series Production Notebooks: Theatre in Process: Volumes 1 & 2 featuring the work of eight major dramaturgs. In 1985 he co-founded Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of Americas and became the Board President for LMDA in 2001-2006. Bly was invited to co-lead the first ever LMDA delegation to a Mexico arts conference (Puerta de las Americas Festival) generating an international dialogue and exchange of resources among artists and scholars that continues today. In 2014 he created and funded the LMDA Bly Creative Capacity Grant/Fellowship Program supporting eighteen international projects that advanced the practice of dramaturgy ranging from injecting contemporary astronomy with dramaturgical narratives, dramaturgy that broke down indigenous barriers, and promoting digital dramaturgy. He has been a member of “LMDA Dramaturging the Phoenix Forum” and “LMDA Anti-Racism Task Force” since 2020. In 2011 Bly co-founded with Gregg Henry and is the Director for the international Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive Program. He has also served as a Playwriting Workshop Leader there since 2002. In 2010 Bly received the LMDA Gotthold Lessing Lifetime Achievement Award in Dramaturgy at Banff in Canada. He received in 2019 the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Medallion for Lifetime Excellence in Dramaturgy for his work for shaping and championing dramaturgy in American theater. His latest book New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21stCentury Playwriting features nine unique play prompts featuring playwrights Bly mentored with who have gone on to have major careers in theater and media including Ken Lin, Lindsey Ferrentino, Marcus Gardley, Sarah Treem, and Rolin Jones.
For any questions or concerns, please contact Gregg Henry, Artistic Director of KCACTF, at GHenry@kennedy-center.org