From the Academy into the Profession at LMDA 2018: Crossing Borders—Fri 22 June 2018
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2018-06-22

Crossing Borders: From the Academy into the Profession
11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. PDT (Vancouver) / 12 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. MDT (Edmonton) / 1 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 2 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. EDT (Toronto)

Moderator: Judith Rudakoff (Dramaturg and Professor of Playwriting and Dramaturgy at York University)

Panelists: Collette Radau (Toronto-Based Emerging Dramaturg focused on new play development and devised work, editor of the PLEDGE Project database at Playwrights Guild of Canada), Aaron Jan (Dramaturgy Intern at Cahoots Theatre and was an inaugural member of Factory Theatre’s Foremen Directing Unit), Adam Corrigan Holowitz (Founding Artistic Director of AlvegoRoot Theatre Company and associate artist of Troubadour Theatre Collective and co-dramaturg for the Troubadour Playwrights Unit), Elise A. LaCroix (Masters Student at the University of Alberta, Dramaturgy Intern with the Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre, and editorial assistant on the collection Performing Exile: Foreign Bodies), and Sabah Haque (সাবা হক, حق صباح) (Fundraising Assistant at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, a participant in Generator’s Artist Producer Training Program, and the Creative Intern at Pandemic Theatre).

This panel will introduce five emerging dramaturgs within five years of completing their university training. Participants will share highlights of work they are currently engaged in, as well as offer practical examples of strategies and tactics for moving out of the academy and into the profession.

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas present their 2018 Conference Crossing Borders livestreaming from Toronto, Canada on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday 21 June to Saturday 23 June 2018.

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