Keynote at the Virtual Synchronous LMDA Conference 2021 on Thursday 17 June 2021
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2021-06-17

Keynote: Mexico City 2006-Mexico City 2021 & Beyond!
9 a.m. PDT (Tijuana, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (CDMX, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4)
Original language: English
Speakers: Sabina Berman, Mark Bly, Liz Engelman, Conchi León, Silvia Peláez, Brian Quirt


In 2006 ten LMDA Member Delegates from Canada and the United States were invited to the prestigious international Gateway to the Americas Festival in Mexico City. In LMDA’s first ever event in Mexico they participated and led a series of roundtables on the challenges facing playwrights in Mexico and Latin America in the areas of translation, circulation, publication, and production opportunities, and also questions about what a dramaturg does all leading to a lively mutual exchange. Now fifteen years later, we have gathered together a panel that helped to make this original exchange take place including Sabina Berman, Conchi León, and Silvia Peláez from Mexico; Brian Quirt from Canada; and Mark Bly and Liz Engelman from the United States. This panel, moderated by Mark Bly LMDA’s Board President back in 2006, will touch on the original Festival, with panelists sharing how that Festival and the mutual exchange generated new opportunities for them, where they are now as artists and educators, their dreams for the future, and finally, how in deploying the digital we can continue to break down the visible and invisible artistic borders in the face of increasing globalization and 21st Century “colonization” that takes place in our lives now.


Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas presents Without Borders: Dramaturgy in the New Decade / Sin Fronteras: Dramaturgismo en la Nueva Década livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 17 June and Friday 18 June 2021.

LMDA’s mission with this ground-breaking gathering is to ignite a global conversation about the impact / purpose / process / evolution of dramaturgy in the new decade. This conference will ask participants to examine how dramaturgy lives, breathes, and changes during/after the social, political, and economical adjustments that COVID-19 has brought to our lives.

This project is supported in part by an award from National Endowments for the Arts.


The in-person conference in Mexico City is supported in part by Coordinación Nacional de Teatro of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL).


https://howlround.com/happenings/livestreaming-conference-without-borders-dramaturgy-new-decade-virtual-synchronous