Executive Director, Creative Affairs
The Dramatists Guild of America, New York, January 2007 to present.
In January of 2007, I began a newly created position to help define and then satisfy the needs of this 6000-member national organization of playwrights, lyricists, librettists and composers. The Council of the Guild (its governing body) includes most of our country’s most notable dramatists: Edward Albee, Marsha Norman, David Ives, Tony Kushner, David Henry Hwang, Doug Wright, Tina Howe, Stephen Schwartz, Gretchen Cryer, Carol Hall, Theresa Rebeck and others.
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Artistic Director, Associate Chair, Program Director
Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 1986 to the present.
Executive Administrator responsible for the development and operation of a professional training program dedicated to the instruction of playwriting and screenwriting which culminates in a BFA or MFA. Additionally, Artistic Director of The First Look Theatre Company – a professional acting and directing ensemble designed for specific workshops and showcases in the Department of Dramatic Writing. Additionally, Producer of all departmental productions: The Festival of New Works, The Marathon Festival of One-Act Plays, The Ten Minute Play Festival, The MFA/BFA Thesis Readings, The Goldberg Prize-Winning Play production.
Program Director and Instructor for The Summer Playwriting Intensive
The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. 2002 to the present.
A nationally recognized summer program offering advanced instruction in playwriting for aspiring playwrights selected from a talent pool throughout the country. Instruction along with Marsha Norman, Arthur Kopit, Steven Dietz, Lee Blessing, Melanie Marnich, Ken Ludwig, Naomi Izuka, David Ives, Heather McDonald, Christopher Shinn and others.
Visiting Playwright
University of Wyoming, Fall 2007.
Guest Artist and Lecturer
Blaine Quarnstrom Playwright's Series,
University of Southern Mississippi, February 2007.
Inaugural year for a playwright-in-residence program. I’ll teach workshops, attend readings of student plays and meet with the faculty to discuss ways of growing the program.
Guest Artist and Lecturer
Kalamazoo College, January, 2007.
Teach workshops for a small group of playwrights and publicly respond to student work in their annual ten-minute play festival.
Judge
Arts & Letters Prize in Drama, Georgia College and State University, 2006.
For national competition of annual short play contest.
Artistic Director And Founder
Playwrights PlayGround, New York City, 2004 to the present.
A New York City production company whose sole purpose is to the promote the work of playwrights over the age of 40.
National Chair
National Playwriting Program, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, 2002 to 2005.
National Vice-Chair April 1999, through 2002. Plan, innovate and implement playwriting programming for eight national regions as part an annual national theatre festival sponsored by the Kennedy Center.
Board of Advisors
Chicago Dramatists
Board of Advisors
The Playwrights Forum of D.C.
Featured Guest Artist
The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valez, Alaska, 2005, 2006, 2007
New play respondent; workshops in Basic Dramatic Structure, The 10-Minute Play, Building a Career.
Guest Artist
Southeast Theatre Conference, 2004, 2006, 2007
Workshops taught in playwriting and the 10-minute play. Respondent to the SETC 10-Minute Play Festival.
Reader
The Eugene O’Neill Summer Playwriting Institute, Summer, 2005
Guest Artist
The University of Texas at Austin , MFA Thesis Projects, Spring 2004
Guest Artist/Lecturer
Texas Educational Theatre Association (2004) and Georgia Theatre Assocation (2004),
and various regional festivals of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival.
Producer
HOMOgenius, 2003, 2002.
Short-play festival of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered playwrights for Off-Off Broadway’s Manhattan Theatre Source.
Creator
The Signature Series, Lamar University, 2000 to the 2003.
The initial offering was forty-seven autographed plays gifted to the university in honor of a thriving educational theatre program. Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, Wendy Wasserstein, John Guare, Pete Gurney, Paula Vogel, Lanford Wilson and Terrence McNally were among the original offering. Each year, I contribute an additional three autographed plays plus a reading copy for students.
Guest Artist, Board of Advisors
The Playwrights Forum, Washington, D.C., 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007
Topics included marketing a career as a playwright, writing and producing the 10-minute play and resume-building experiences.
Guest Respondent
Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 10-Minute Play Festival, summer national conference, 1997 to the present.
Guest Artist
Texas Educational Theatre Association, 2002.
Classes taught in the 10-minute play and marketing a career in playwriting.