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DRAMATURGY
Region IV encourages you to send materials for the dramaturgy award to be given at the
festival in Daytona Beach, Florida this year. Our guest dramaturg this year is David White -
playwright, dramaturg, director, and Artistic Director of WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory.
To apply is simple. Please send materials as specified below to Mark Charney. The deadline is
Friday, January 7, 2011.
Submit two copies of the application packet to:
Dr. Mark Charney
Director of Theatre
Department of Performing Arts
Brooks Center
Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-0525
(864) 656-3043
cmark@clemson.edu
The postmark deadline is January 7.
Who is eligible?
Undergraduate and graduate students who work specifically as the dramaturg on a production
or workshop, or who submit work created for a dramaturgy class. If the project is a workshop or
production, the student must be credited as the dramaturg. A student who also writes, directs,
designs, performs in, or otherwise collaborates on a project will be responsible for articulating the boundaries of the dramaturgical work and speaking on its behalf. The student need not be enrolled full-time to submit work for this award.
LMDA/ACTF Student Dramaturgy Award
This award is designed to recognize contributions by student dramaturgs to the conception,
development, and production of theater within their colleges and universities or to educational
projects in dramaturgy. The philosophical foundation of this award - like that of dramaturgy
itself - rests in the belief that art benefits from examination on the parts of both artist and
audience, and that creative inspiration accompanied by analysis and reflection is most likely to lead to productions and projects that fulfill the spiritual, social and personal potential of the theatrical event.
Also inherent in the guidelines is the belief that the dramaturg should participate fully and
uniquely in the collaborative act of making theater and in promoting social discourse around
the theatrical event. To validate the significance of the dramaturg's contributions - and to raise awareness of dramaturgy in the academic field - we ask for a letter of nomination from a faculty member.
HOW TO APPLY:
- Put together a title page, identifying the dramaturg, the project, and the school. Include
your address, phone number, email address, and date of the project.
- Include two statements written by the dramaturg, one delineating the project and its
challenges, the other detailing the process from start to finish.
- Enclose a letter of nomination from a faculty member. If you wish, you may include
more letters of support from persons directly related to the project – collaborating
artists or audience members for a workshop or production, or fellow students/teachers
in a classroom project.
- Include all materials that seem relevant, but not to exceed 100 pages. This may include
emails between the director, the cast, the designers, etc and the dramaturg; pictures
of the display; information from websites created; questions asked during the process;
and information gathered for individual packets. We are not interested in your Xeroxing
all that you researched, but in your analysis and compilation of materials researched.
- Submit two copies of the entire application packet to the Mark Charney at the address
above, postmarked January 7th.
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 ways 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?
Please feel free to contact me at cmark@clemson.edu if you have any questions. Do not miss this
opportunity to attend the regional festival as a dramaturg, and possibly the Kennedy Center in
April (and the O'Neill in July). Thanks so much,
Mark J. Charney
National and Regional Coordinator of the Dramaturgy Initiative
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