Works-in-Progress

I have just seen the draft of the new LMDA Review and look forward to reading the final copy when it is published in the next few weeks. My conversation with installation dramaturg Lisa Arnold appears as the final article in the Review. It was great fun to collaborate with Lisa again, but more importantly, our discussion was informative to us, and we hope to the larger dramaturgical public as well. Lisa and I have worked together on many projects, but rarely have we ever sat down (virtually, as we did this all by email) to discuss our specific methodologies and how they differ with the very disparate work that we do. Drafting this article provided insight into her process, and it also allowed me to reflect on my own work and why I do what I do the way that I do. Dramaturgs, check it out!

I've also just returned from ATHE - always invigorating. I am beginning work on another article involving my work at Caltech. I would like to take some time with this piece, so that I can move it from focusing specifically on Life of Galileo, the piece I recently dramaturged, into a larger discussion of the role of a liberal arts education at a technical institute. I believe that the dramaturgical materials I prepared for our production served as a sort of outreach for the performing arts. I'm looking forward to starting up collaboration with Caltech again in a few weeks. I'm also planning to propose a roundtable discussion on our work at TACIT (Theatre Arts at the California Institute of Technology) for next year's ATHE in Los Angeles.