Dramaturgy? What’s that?
Dramaturgy is whatever your process needs! My process synthesizes ideas through creative visuals, acting exercises, sensory engagement, and fun websites or presentations! What does your project smell like? If it was a door, what would it look like? How does your audience feel when they sit down? These are all the questions I love to ask a creator and ideas I love to bring to a rehearsal room.
Check out some visuals from past projects below - you can find some of the ways I communicate with creative teams!
Visual Analysis: Constellation of Tensions - 'The Thanksgiving Play' by Larissa Fasthorse
'The Nether' by Jennifer Haley Presentation - The Legalities of Cyberspace (both poems written by robots!)
'Gloria' by Branden Jacobs Jenkins - Production Website. Click the image to see the whole website!
'Finnian's Rainbow' Structure Analysis - Lyricism and Societal Critique
'Finnian's Rainbow' Lyric Analysis - Modern Equivalency
'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams - Production Website. Click the mage to see the whole website!
Liturgical Presentation - Biblical Context for 'So Help Me God.'
'PEERLESS' by Jiehae Park - Pitch Presentation, with drawings I made by hand! Click the image to see the whole presentatioin.
This topic was one my audience was very unfamiliar with, so I approached with vocabulary....
.....and silliness!
'German Expressionism' - Historical Context. Click the image to see the whole presentation!
'Workers' Comfort Task Force' Proposal. Click the image to see the full proposal!
'DV8 Theatre' - Contextualizing Established Theatre Companies
'Naruto' - Stage Play Educational Packet. Click on the image to see my full packet!
The Song That Saved the Show - An Overview of the Act 1 Finale. Click on the image to see the full presentation!
'Spring's Awakening' First Rehearsal Presentation - Communicating with a Full Team.
Tech Performance of Trà Nguyễn's 차’nt, for which I was the dramaturg! You can find the dramaturgy site by clicking on the image.
'La J'etais' Analysis - The Sci-Fi Genre and French Film History. Talking about time travel was really hard in French!
Tech Performance of Trà Nguyễn's 차’nt, for which I was the dramaturg! You can find the dramaturgy site by clicking on the image.
Part of my dramaturgy process was drawing key images and stage pictures so the performers could see them!
Part of my dramaturgy process was drawing key images and stage pictures so the performers could see them!
Part of my dramaturgy process was drawing key images and stage pictures so the performers could see them!
A painting I made for FISHBOWL, by Gabriel Martin Armstrong!