Filed under: Dramaturgy, Theatre | Tags: Anne Hamilton, Audience Engagment, Digital Tools, Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy, Regional Theatre, Set Designer, Woolly Mammoth, www.hamiltonlit.com
Dramaturgs everywhere, take note of Woolly Mammoth’s worthy efforts in Washington, DC.
Article: Are Woolly Mammoth’s digital engagement efforts a glimpse at the theater of the future?
By Sarah Halzack for The Washington Post
Excerpt: “It’s about 15 minutes until show time at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, but Anna Heller Sebok hasn’t made it to her seat yet.
She’s tinkering with a sleek installation in the lobby of the Penn Quarter playhouse for its production of “Stupid F—ing Bird,” an irreverent, contemporary adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s famed drama “The Seagull.”
The display encourages patrons to remix monologues from the original 19th-century play into 140-character messages for Twitter. Users build their snippet-sized prose by mixing up the words on a large magnetic board, and then they can send out their creations over social media using flat-screen Apple computers in the exhibit or by snapping a photo on their smartphones….”
Read the full article at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/are-woolly-mammoths-digital-engagement-efforts-a-glimpse-at-the-theater-of-the-future/2013/06/14/034157bc-c954-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html
Filed under: Dramaturgy, Theatre | Tags: American Theatre, Anne Hamilton, Hamilton Dramaturgy, La Jolla Playhouse, Latino, Randy Gener, Teatro Mascara Magica, Theatre
Excerpt from an article by Randy Gener:
“Congratulations to Dr. Jorge Huerta and William Virchis, founders of Teatro Mascara Magica.
California theatre company, La Jolla Playhouse, founded by film stars Gregory Peck and Mel Ferrer has made room for a new local company to reside in its plush campus in San Diego and announced that the Latino troupe Teatro Máscara Mágica will be a new resident company during the 2013-2014 season…”
See the entire article here: http://thejournalist.ie/entertainment/theatre-news-teatro-mascara-magica-lands-la-jolla-residency/
Filed under: Dramaturgy, Recent Successes, Script Development, Theatre, Women Theatre Artists, Works by Women, Workshops by Anne | Tags: Anne Hamilton, Dramaturg, Dramaturgy, GPTC, Hamilton Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, New Roles for Women, New Works, Ruth Margraff, Script Development, Walter Byongsok Chon, Works by Women, Workshops, Workshops by Anne, www.hamiltonlit.com
I just returned from ten days in Omaha, Nebraska, where I participated as a workshop leader for a Dramaturgy Intensive at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and gave dramaturgical feedback to ten playwrights whose works were given readings at the Great Plains Theatre Conference.
Walter Byongsok Chon designed the intensive, which was one offering included in a month-long course offered by Dr. Cindy Phanuef. He gave six lectures, and Heather Helinsky and I led one workshop each.
It was my second year as a dramaturgical respondent at the GPTC, and my first as a workshop leader at UNO. The plays and playwrights were absolutely terrific. I also enjoyed spending time with other Guest Artists such as Constance Congdon, Mac Wellman, Ruth Margraff, Kate Snodgrass, Elena Araoz, Justin Townsend, and Eliza Bent. Many thanks to Artistic Director Kevin Lawler for inviting me to participate again.
Here are the plays I was privileged to work on:
PlayLab Readings
Penny Gets Bit by Molly Welsh
The Singularity by Crystal Jackson
Ganglia: Instructions for the Symbiogenesis by Peter Roth
Daughter by Elana Gartner
Silueta by Diana Burbano, Christopher Shelton, Tom Shelton
Neverland Industries by Danny Carroll
Irreversible by Jack Karp
Madame Ho by Eugenie Chan
MainStage Readings
William & Judith by Cody Daigle
Mai Dang Lao by David Jacobi
Many congratulations to all of the playwrights, and best wishes for the continued development of their new work.
Anne Hamilton/Hamilton Dramaturgy 