Exploring the 2018 Bly Grant Projects at LMDA 2018: Crossing Borders—Thursday 21 June 2018
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2018-06-22

Exploring the 2018 Bly Grant Projects
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. PDT (Vancouver) / 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. MDT (Edmonton) / 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. EDT (Toronto)

Moderator: Brian Quirt, @NightswimmingTh (Artistic Director, Nightswimming; LMDA Board Chair; Director, Banff Centre Playwrights Lab)

Panelists: Mia Amir, (Educator, cultural organizer, writer, Independent director, dramaturg and theatre artist; Creative Director of The Story We Be; Dramaturgy Research Associate with Playwrights Theatre Centre; & Dramaturg with the Virago Play Series); Amy Brooks, @bourbonswan @RoadsideTheater @RuralArtsWeekly (Program Director & Dramaturg with Roadside Theater/Appalshop, Inc.; LMDA Regional VP, Central Appalachia; and Executive VP for Conferences); Haley Nelson, (Lobby Display Dramaturg & New Works Festival Co-Coordinator with Kitchen Dog Theater; & Freelance Dramaturg with Dallas Theater Center and Artstillery); Rose Oser, @zspace_theatre (Literary Manager at Z Space in San Francisco, & Co-Artistic Director at FaultLine Theater); Mark Bly (Teaching Artist-Dramaturg at The Acting Co. & Professor of Playwriting at Fordham/Primary Stages) and Hannah Hessel Ratner, @hanvnah (Audience Enrichment Manager with The Shakespeare Theatre Company; Producing Playwright at The Welders; & Freelance Dramaturg).

In the fourth year of LMDA's Bly Creative Capacity Grants program, 5 projects received funding. This session is devoted to introducing the 5 grant recipients and their remarkable dramaturgical projects to the membership. Each recipient will provide an overview of their project and discuss the process to be enacted during the coming year. Mark Bly, the program's patron and founder, will speak to the program as a whole and its impact over the four years of funding.

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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