Welcome Student Dramaturgs!
New and exciting happenings are being added to Region 1 Dramaturgy for Festival 42.
DIVE IN!
Students can sign up to be guerrilla dramaturges when they arrive at the festival.
If you have worked as a dramaturg at your college during spring or fall 09 you will have opportunities to showcase your dramaturgy work, meet dramaturgy professionals, and have your work responded to for consideration of the LMDA/KCACTF National Award and the new ATHE/KCACTF Regional Award.
You are also invited to collaborate with student directors, designers and playwrights in “process” workshops and learning activities designed to strengthen skills and knowledge of the work of production and educational dramaturgs.
An excellent resource to learn about Dramaturgy and the responsibilities of a Dramaturg is the Dramaturgy Student Handbook on line at
http://www.lmda.org/blog/LMDAMemberGroups
/UniversityCaucus
This handbook was compiled by Region 1 Dramaturgy Chair, Magda Romanska, Ph.D., Head of Theatre Studies and Dramaturgy Advisor at Emerson College, Boston, MA.
Follow the links to learn about the student dramaturgy initiatives, criteria, guidelines and application process. Note the deadline for applications is December 7. 2009.
Student dramaturges working with productions opening after December 7, 2009 are to submit electronic materials immediately upon the close of the production.
Please feel welcome to contact me with any questions, and I look forward to seeing you at the University of New Hampshire, January 26-31, 2010!
All my best,
Theresa Lang
Interim Dramaturgy Chair KCACTF Region 1
Boston College
langta@bc.edu
781-396-4380
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LMDA/KCACTF National Student Dramaturgy Initiative
What the National Award Entails
Who is Eligible
Dramaturgy Presentation
To Enter LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Initiative
Dramaturgy Exhibition
Examples of Dramaturgy Protocol
Region 1/ATHE Dramaturgy Program Notes Award
Guerilla Dramaturgy
LMDA / KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Initiative(National Award)
The LMDA / KCACTF Student Initiative is a National Award designed to recognize contributions by student dramaturgs to the conception, development, and production within their colleges and universities, or to educational projects in dramaturgy. Both LMDA/KCACTF believe that the dramaturg should participate fully and uniquely in the collaborative act of making theater and in promoting social discourse around the theatrical event. This award validates the significance of the dramaturg's contributions and raises awareness of dramaturgy in the academic field.
What the National Award Entails
The LMDA / KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Award will be presented at the Awards Ceremony on the closing night of the Festival. The student dramatrug will receive a cash prize, and membership in LMDA. The winner will also be invited to the KCACTF National Festival in Washington, DC, April 12-18, 2010, to participate in weeklong workshops, to become eligible for the KCACTF National Dramaturgy Award and win a summer internship at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Who is Eligible
Undergraduate or graduate students who serve as the lead production or educational dramaturg for an associate or participating entry during the current festival year (January-December 2009) are eligible for the national award.
If this is a workshop project or unrealized production, then you must be credited as the lead production dramaturg. A student dramaturg who also writes, directs, designs, performs in, or otherwise collaborates on a project is responsible for articulating the boundaries of the dramaturgical work and speaking on its behalf. Entries by dramaturgical teams are welcomed. Please be sure to account for the work of each individual on the team.
You must deliver your Dramaturgical Protocol Binder to Festival 42, appropriately display the project, be prepared to give a 10-minute presentation on your work and receive response feedback in order to be considered for advancement to the national festival in Washington DC.
LMDA/KCACTF Dramaturgy Presentation
Only Student dramaturgs competing in the LMDA/KCACTF Dramaturgy Initiative will be asked to give a ten-minute presentation of their process stating how the production was enhanced by their dramaturgical analysis and research. They should discuss the impact the dramaturgical collaboration had on the audience or the artistic team, as well as how this project informs, challenges or advances the field of dramaturgy, in general and/or with the student's school. They are asked to be prepared to discuss active intellectual and artistic involvement in the preparation and interpretation of the text with the dramaturgy respondents.
To Enter LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Initiative
On-Line Application
Deadline for Application & Materials - December 7, 2009
Please fill out the online entry form. CLICK HERE
Please electronically submit the following:
- A Letter of Nomination from a faculty member describing the working relationship of the student dramaturg with collaborating production members, and the contributions that the student damaturg made to the project.
- A Project Description (no more than two typed double-spaced pages) which address the following:
- Identifies the production, school, and name of the dramaturg
- Summarizes your experience as the dramaturg
- Identifies any unique or unusual issues which shaped your work
- Articulates your understanding of the nature of dramaturgy as it relates to the following Award Criteria:
Distinctiveness: What is creative about the dramaturg’s approach and/or analysis?
Contextualization: How is the production or project enhanced by dramaturgical analysis or research; alternatively, how is the academic project in dramaturgy imaginatively projected into a larger social, political, academic or artistic setting?
Impact: In what way are the audience, artists or institution enriched by dramaturgical ideas and execution?
Ethics: How are issues that might be raised by the terms of the collaboration or changing responsibilities dealt with and/or resolved?
Significance: How does this project inform, challenge or advance the field of dramaturgy, in general and/or within the student’s school?
- Representative samples of supporting project material which may include: program notes, study guides or other dramaturgical writing, project scripts, visual research, journal or email communication with the director, actor research material.
- Please do NOT send your dramaturgical protocol binder in the mail. You are asked to hand-deliver, display and present at the Dramaturgy Exhibition for Festival response.
Deadline Date – December 7, 2009
Word documents, pdf or zipped files via email are to be sent to:
Theresa Lang,
Interim Dramaturgy Chair
langta@bc.edu
Dramaturgy Exhibition
All student dramaturgs will be given table space, approximately 30 by 36 inches, to display their Dramaturgy Protocol Binders. Please bring your own self-standing display board to include sample visual and textual materials used in the production.
Examples of Dramaturgy Protocol could include some (or all) of the following:
- Preproduction research (including library-based and internet-based scholarly research, textual and visual resources, literary criticism, primary archival research)
- Actors' Packets
- Director's Packet
- Actors Presentation
- Production Presentation
- Study Guides
- School Guides
- On-line websites created for the show
- Program notes
- Any kind of promotional materials that the dramaturg
contributed to
- Lobby Display
- Outline of the Talkbacks
- Bibliography of sources consulted in the project
Make sure that all materials are clean, clear and concise. Materials should be free of spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors. All source material should be cited using MLA format. Include a table of contents and label the materials within the binders.
Region 1/ATHE Dramaturgy
Program Notes Award
(Regional Award)
Introducing the Region 1/ATHE Program Note Competition This competition is for all student dramaturgs who wrote notes for either a participating or associate entry during this festival year (January-December 2009).
Please submit an original production program and attach a cover page including complete contact information for the dramaturg and the title of the production. Include 3 copies of the dramaturgy notes as they appeared in the program to the Interim Dramaturgy Chair at the below listed address. Mailed and postmarked no later than December 7, 2009
Mail Original Production Program with 3 copies of dramaturg notes to:
Theresa Lang
KCACTF Region 1 Interim Dramaturgy Chair
Boston College
Theatre Department
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Guerrilla Dramaturgy
Debuting at Festival 42 is Guerrilla Dramaturgy where student dramatrugs will receive a crash course in everything from production and educational dramaturgy, facilitating audience talk backs to theatrical collaboration to new play development – all in one activity. In cooperation with NPP, dramaturgs conduct research relating to a new play and then collaborate with playwright, director and actors on a public reading of the play.
Guerrilla Dramaturgs do not need to bring anything to the festival other than intellectual curiosity and a desire for an exciting collaborative experience. (A laptop is useful, but not required.) They will be given their assigned play the first night and will be part of that play’s production team for the rest of the festival. The research will be done at the University of New Hampshire, using the resources of the library. Guerilla dramaturges will also have ample time to participate in other workshops and festival activities.
Students can sign up to be guerrilla dramaturges when they arrive at the festival or use the on-line LMDA/KCACTF application form – CLICK HERE
Questions – just email or telephone:
Theresa Lang
Interim Dramaturgy Chair KCACTF Region 1
Boston College
langta@bc.edu
781-396-4380
