Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy

Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy offers fresh perspectives on how dramaturgs can support a production beyond rigid disciplinary expectations about what information and ideas are useful and how they should be shared.

Philippa Kelly is Resident Dramaturg for the California Shakespeare Theater; Professor and Chair of English at the California Jazz Conservatory; Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; and Visiting Senior Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Australia. Amrita Ramanan is the Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a Board Member for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. She was previously an Artistic Associate and Literary Manager at Arena Stage for five seasons.

Preface: Philippa Kelly; Acknowledgements: Philippa Kelly and Amrita Ramanan; Introduction: Philippa Kelly: Dramaturgy in Motion; Section one: permission to speak; 1 Faedra Chatard Carpenter: Deconstructing Our Perspectives on Casting: An "Inter-Article" with Hana S. Sharif; 2 Scott Horstein: Dramaturgy as Prophecy: Facing Our Truth and Dramaturging the Predominantly White Institution; 3 Awele Makeba: the dramaturgy of the classroom; Section two: taking up positions - playwright/dramaturg; 4 Martine Kei Green-Rogers: The Dramaturgy of Black Culture: The Court Theatre's Productions of August Wilson's Century Cycle; 5 Izumi Ashizawa, with Ajuawak Kapashesit embodied dramaturgy: the development of the indigenous play, the patron saint of the lost children.; 6 Finn Lefevre: The Name (isn't a) Game: New Explorations in Trans Applied Theatre; 7 Julie Felise Dubiner: Translation and Form; Section three: who's "at the table"?; 8 Jonathan Meth: crossing the line; 9 Tim Collingwood: depth perception: re-thinking social roles, staging aspergers from the inside.; 10 Annalisa Dias: Decolonizing Equity and Inclusion - Strategies for Resisting White Supremacy.; 11 Mei Ann Teo: dramaturging revolution: diana Oh's {my lingerie play} 2017: the concert and call to arms!!!!!!!!! the final installation.; Section four: cultural landscapes, past, present and future.; 12 Walter Byongsok Chon: The stakes of expanding a cultural landscape: dramaturging, adapting and performing Gao Xingjian's The Other Shore; 13 Michael M. Chemers: VISIT TO A ZOOT PLANET: USC SUITS UP IN 2017; 14 Mark Bly: the dramaturgical impulse: or how big is your universe?; 15 Philippa Kelly: epilogue; Authors' Biographical details and contact information