What's dramaturgy? I'm of the opinion that there are as many definitions for dramaturgy as there are dramaturgs, directors, and playwrights. But here's what I've done:
Education
The Catholic University of America: MA in Theatre History and Criticism, 2008
American University: BA in Theatre, minor in Education Studies, concentration in Literature, 2001
Workshops in devised theatre (Michael Rhode, 2009), new play development (Michael Bigelow Dixon, 2009)
Dramaturgy Experience
Monument The Inkwell 2010
(Doug Dolcino, playwright/Jessica Burgess, director)
Bleed Doorway Arts Ensemble 2010
(Renee Calarco, playwright/Matt Ripa, director)
Off the Block Active Cultures Sportaculture Festival 2010
(Doug Dolcino, playwright/Jessica Burgess, director)
Bleed Doorway Arts Ensemble 2010
(Renee Calarco, playwright/Matt Ripa, director)
Off the Block Active Cultures Sportaculture Festival 2010
(April Brassar, playwright/Emily Jablonski, director)
Eulogy Imagination Stage SOOS Sr. Ensemble 2010
(Stephen Spotswood, playwright/Jessica Burgess, director)
Sing and Never Tire KUUMBA Players 2009
(Elizabeth Andrews, playwright)
Strive/Seek/Find The Inkwell Inkubator Festival 2009
(Jason Platt, playwright/Christopher Gallu, director)
Echoes of Life Imagination Stage ISDE Ensemble 2009
(Veronika Farkas, choreographer)
Some Assembly Required Imagination Stage SOOS Sr. Ensemble 2009
(Diane Nutting & Meg Greene, facilitators)
XX Imagination Stage ISDE Ensemble 2009
(Veronika Farkas, choreographer)
Lysistrata The Catholic University of America 2006
(Matthew Ripa, director)
Hello and Goodbye Didactic Theatre Company 2005
(Jewel Schrader Orem, director)
The Government Inspector The Catholic University of America 2005
(James Phillips, director)
Publications
Playing from the Heart: The Girl Scout Experience, The Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital & Imagination Stage (Funded by the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation), 2009
Teach to Reach Potential: An Instructional Guide, Imagination Quest (IQ) (Research assistant), 2007
“How Do You Solve a Problem Like Petruchio?: Kiss Me Kate as a Product of Its Time and Place”, Magazine Americana, 2006
Playwriting Experience
The Adventures of Sinbad and the Princesses of Persia. Imagination Stage, 2010
Foul is Foul, Play-in-a-Day (Bethesda Urban Partnership), 2009
Pomegranates for Persephone, Imagination Stage, 2008
The Wings of the Butterfly, Imagination Stage, 2007
Other Experience
Script reader, The Inkwell
Judge, Helen Hayes Awards
Guest Lecturer, The Smithsonian Associates
Judge, Shakespeare Monologue Festival, Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies (University of Maryland, College Park)
Theatre in Our Schools (TIOS) essay associate & evaluator, American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE)
Member: Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA)
