THE KENNEDY CENTER
DIRECTING INTENSIVE: Developing the New Play

In association with
The Kennedy Center's MFA Playwrights' Workshop 
produced in association with the National New Play Network [NNPN]
 
Saturday July 23-Sunday July 31, 2016

Led by Mark Routhier
With one-on-one mentorship from directors and dramaturgs from
NNPN Member Theatres,
Centerstage,
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
And others…
 
An eight-day Intensive program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts focusing on enriching the participants' experience as a director of new work.
 
Eligible participants are current university students [undergraduate or graduate] and recent graduates entering the field. A limited number of places in the Intensive will be held for faculty. It is anticipated that up-to fifteen participants will be invited. 
 
The workshop provides the participants with the opportunity to observe and work with a professional director as they guide a development based rehearsal room, and the chance to meet one on one with the director to discuss the rehearsal process, and the participants own work.
 
The workshop will engage all participants in an ongoing, rigorous conversation about the role and craft of the director in the new work landscape.
 
Participants will serve as assistant directors and will provide support to their assigned workshop play as determined by conversation with the director, and be available for a range of tasks that may be required in the room. Participants should must possess a generosity of spirit, curiosity for new play development and a passion for new work.
 
The program will consist of:
-Daily meetings and ongoing projects with Mark Routhier
-Sessions on the Director/Dramaturg/Playwright relationship with Mark Bly
-Assignments with mentor directors on the plays being developed and rehearsed during the MFA Playwrights' Workshop, produced in association with NNPN, at the Kennedy Center.
-Group sessions with each projects' directors.
-Discussions on institutional new play development process and policy with the theatre companies represented on the creative teams of the MFA Playwrights' Workshop.
 
Each day's schedule will be coordinated with the MFAPW rehearsal blocks [9:30am-1:30pm, 2:30-6:30pm], with lunch meetings and evening lab sessions.
 
Tuition and Housing:
$600
Travel to Washington DC and meals are the responsibility of the participant. Shared Lodging will be in the residence halls of the George Washington University, in the Kennedy Center neighborhood at a cost of $36-56 (shared/private) per night.
 
To Apply:
-a letter of motivation for attending the Directing Intensive
-a resume of related experience
-an appropriate writing sample
-contact information for a mentor director who is willing to serve as a reference
By: April 15, 2016.
By attached PDF or Microsoft Word documents
To: [email protected]
Invited participants will be notified by May 10, 2016
(Early submission and acceptance notification is possible if applicants' home institutions have earlier professional development funding deadlines. Please inquire.)
 
MARK ROUTHIER
Mark lives in Washington, DC as a freelance theatre artist. Mark was the Director of New Play Development at Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF. He directed productions of Bad Dog, The Best of Enemies, Pluto, The Cortez Method, Sense and Sensibility, God of Carnage, Opus, and Charlotte’s Web for Orlando Shakespeare Theater. He ran PlayFest, presented by Harriett’s Charitable Trust, OST’s new play festival. Plutoby Steve Yockey was part of an NNPN Rolling World Premiere.  Bad Dog by Jennifer Hoppe-House had a second production in the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival at Olney Theatre Center in Washington, DC. At Theatre UCF, he directed The Importance of Being Earnest, Deborah Zoe Laufer’s Leveling Up and Kelly Lusk’s (a love story).
 
In New Orleans, Mark’s NOLA Project directing credits include David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette (Top 5 plays of 2015, Times-Picayune), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Best Production and Best Director of 2014, Times-Picayune. And winner of 5 Big Easy Awards including Best Director of a Drama) and a co-production of Lanford Wilson’s Balm in Gilead with The Nola Project and Cripple Creek Theatre Co. (Best Production and Best Director of 2012, Times-Picayune. And winner of 2 Big Easy Awards including Best Director of a Drama). Other New Orleans credits include Orange Flower Water at the Elm Theatre (Big Easy Award for Best Director of a Drama, 2011), Cat’s-Paw with InsideOut Prod. at the Allways Lounge and Theatre, The Santaland Diaries with A.J. Allegra at Le Chat Noir. He was Associate Artistic Director at Southern Rep in New Orleans where he directed The Piano Teacher, Opus, and The Seafarer, as well as Zombie Town: A Documentary Play and Love Childfor Southern Rep @ Le Chat Noir. He directed the world premieres of John Biguenet’s Mold, the third installation of his Rising Water Trilogy, and Freedom by Joyce Pulitzer, Sean Patterson, David Seelig and Kitty Greenberg at Southern Rep.
 
Mark served as the Literary Chair and Vice President on the Executive Committee of the National New Play Network over five years. He helped oversee and directed in five NNPN MFA Playwright Workshops at the Kennedy Center. He was the Literary Manager and then the Director of Artistic Development at Magic Theatre in San Francisco. His favorite San Francisco productions were Kevin Fisher’s Monkey Room at the Magic Theatre, an adaptation of Terry Tarnoff’s The Boneman of Benares, and Steve Yockey’s Skin with Encore Theatre, and the NNPN Rolling World Premiere of Yussef El Guindi’s Jihad Jones and Kalashnikov Babes with Golden Thread. He received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU.  He is a proud member of The NOLA Project in New Orleans.
 

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THE KENNEDY CENTER
NEW PLAY DRAMATURGY INTENSIVE

In association with
The Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas [LMDA]
and
The National New Play Network [NNPN]
  
Saturday July 23-Sunday July 31, 2016

Led by Mark Bly
With
Adrien-Alice Hansel, Literary Director, The Studio Theatre
Julie Felise Dubiner, Oregon Shakespeare Festival/American Revolutions Project
Linda Lombardi, Arena Stage
Celise Kalke, Director of New Projects, Alliance Theatre
Gavin Witt, Senior Dramaturg and Associate Artistic Director, Centerstage
Amy Wegener, Literary Director, Actors Theatre of Louisville
Mead Hunter, Artistic Director, New Harmony Project
and others
 
 
An eight-day Intensive program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts focusing on enriching the participants' experience as the key resource to the playwright and director of new work.
 
 
Eligible participants are current university students [undergraduate or graduate] and recent graduates entering the field. A limited number of places in the Intensive will be held for faculty. It is anticipated that up-to sixteen participants will be invited.
 
 
The program will consist of:
-Daily meetings with Mark Bly
-Assignments with mentor dramaturgs on the eight plays being developed and rehearsed during the MFA Playwrights' Workshop, produced in association with NNPN, at the Kennedy Center.
-Group sessions with each projects' dramaturg.
-Discussions on institutional new play development process and policy with the theatre companies represented on the creative teams of the MFA Playwrights' Workshop.
The creative teams are still being determined for summer 2016, but the theatres represented 2015 included: Centerstage, Actors Theatre of Charlotte, Actors Express, Phoenix Theatre, Milagro, Mo’elo Performing Arts, New Repertory Theatre, and Alliance Theatre.
 
 
Each day's schedule will be coordinated with the MFAPW rehearsal blocks [9:30am-1:30pm, 2:30-6:30pm], with lunch meetings and early evening sessions.
 
 
Tuition and Housing:
$600
 
 
Travel and meals are the responsibility of the participant. Shared Lodging will be in the residence halls of the George Washington University, in the Kennedy Center neighborhood at a cost of $36-56 (shared/private) per night.
 
 
To Apply:
-a letter of motivation for attending the New Play Dramaturgy Intensive
-a resume of related experience
-an appropriate writing sample
By: April 15, 2016.
 
 
By attached PDF or Microsoft Word documents
To: [email protected]
Invited participants will be notified by May 10, 2016
 
 
(Early submission and acceptance notification is possible if applicants' home institutions have earlier professional development funding deadlines. Please inquire.)
 
 
Mark Bly is on The Artists Advisory Board and dramaturgs for The Acting Company founded by John Houseman and Margot Harley. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the MFA Playwriting Program at Fordham/Primary Stages and is former Director of the MFA Playwriting Program at Hunter College 2011-2013. He was the Chair of the Playwriting Program at the Yale School of Drama from 1992-2004 and Associate Artistic Director at Yale Rep. Over the past 35 years he has served as a Dramaturg, Director of New Play Development, and Associate Artistic Director at such venues as the Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Seattle Rep, and Yale Rep, and on Broadway dramaturging and producing over 200 plays. He has dramaturged on Broadway Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice (1985), Moises Kaufman’s 33 Variations (2009), and lbsen’sAn Enemy of the People (2012). Bly has served as  Dramaturg for  world premieres of plays by Rajiv Joseph, Suzan Lori-Parks, Tim Blake Nelson, Sarah Ruhl, Ken Lin, and Moises Kaufman and has worked with such artists as Dan Sullivan, Doug Hughes, Molly Smith, Peter Sellars, Rolin Jones, Zelda Fichandler, Liviu Ciulei, JoAnne Akalaitis, Eric Overmyer, Matthew Maguire, Don Cheadle, Gregory Boyd, Martha Plimpton, Hal Holbrook, David Hyde Pierce, Julianne Moore, Richard Thomas, Jane Fonda. Bly has written for numerous publications: Yale Theatre as Contributing Editor and Advisory Editor, Theatre Forum, American Theatre, The Dramaturgy Sourcebook, Critical Stages, The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy,  LMDA Reviewand Stage Directors and Choreographers Journal. . He is the Editor of Production Notebooks: Theatre in Process: Volumes I & II (TCG, 1996, 2001), and the upcoming Volume III, and Special Editor for Yale Theatre, “Return of the Dramaturgs,” Summer, 1986. In 2010 Bly received the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas G.E. Lessing Career Achievement Award, only the fourth time the award was bestowed in the organization’s history. In 2014 he established the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas Bly Creative Capacity Grants and Fellowships funding and supporting innovative projects that will advance the field of dramaturgy. He has served as Director of the  Kennedy Center New Play Dramaturgy Intensive  for the last six years.


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