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CONVENING: 21ST CENTURY LITERARY OFFICE  February 24-25, 2012
What does the literary office of the future look like? Watch live streamed conversations from AVNPI’s gathering of Literary Managers, Dramaturgs, Playwrights, and Theater Administrators as they hash out the structure and values of literary management.

**All portions of the convening will be live streamed on #NEWPLAY TV except for the breakout sessions.  Consider hosting your own watch party! During breakout sessions, we encourage you to have your own virtual breakouts on Twitter using #newplay! Download your own schedule here.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH (all times Eastern Standard Time)

12:00p – 1:00p            Registration

1:00p – 2:00p              Introductions and Goals of the Convening led by Polly Carl**

2:00p – 3:00p             Interview with Jerry Patch, by David Dower**

3:15p – 4:30p              Panel: Manifestos for the 21^st Century Literary Office
Aaron Carter, Julie Felise Dubiner, Adrien-Alice Hansel, Amrita Ramanan, & Otis Ramsey-Zoe**

4:30p – 5:15p              Breakout Discussion 1

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH (all times Eastern Standard Time)

10:00a – 10:45a             Roundtable Discussion 1:
What’s Literary in the 21^st Century Literary Office and Do We Need a New Name?**

11:00a – 12:00p            Breakout Discussion 2

12:30p – 1:15p               Roundtable Discussion 2:
Literary Managers: Gatekeepers or Yes Men**

1:30p – 2:30p             Breakout Discussion 3

2:45p – 3:30p              Roundtable Discussion 3:
The Relationship between the Literary Manager, the Dramaturg and the Rehearsal Room**

3:45p – 5:30p             Full Group Discussion: Designing the Literary Office of the Future**

8:00p                          STUCK AT THE GATE public performance**

STUCK AT THE GATE
Literary offices read hundreds of scripts and inevitably literary managers and dramaturgs fall in love with one or two or more along the way. We beg. We plead. We want to see this play produced. But alas, it gets STUCK AT THE GATE, no opportunity for production in sight… But our love doesn’t wane. Ilana Brownstein, Polly Carl, Liz Engelman, & Raphael Martin share excerpts from plays that they feel never received proper notoriety:

Bay of Fundy by Sherry Kramer

The Etymology of Bird by Zakiyyah Alexander

The Further Adventures of Suzanne and Monica by Alex Lewin

What to Listen For by Kathleen Tolan

These scenes will be followed by an audience Q&A which will include the online audience through #newplay.

If you are in D.C., join us for STUCK AT THE GATE  in the Molly Smith Study at the Mead Center. Admission is FREE; please contact the Arena Stage box office at 202-488-3300 to make a reservation.

 CONVENING PARTICIPANTS 
Aaron Carter (Literary Manager, Steppenwolf Theatre), Adrien-Alice Hansel (Literary Director, The Studio Theatre), Amrita Ramanan Literary Manager/Dramaturg, Arena Stage), Amy Freed (Stanford University/Arena Stage Resident Playwright), Charles Haugland (Artistic Programs and Dramaturgy/ Huntington Theatre Company), Christian Parker (Associate Artistic Director/ Atlantic Theater Company), Danielle Mages Amato (President, LMDA; Literary Manager/Dramaturg, The Old Globe), David Dower (Associate Artistic Director, Arena Stage), Deborah Stein (Playwright), Emily Morse (Director of Artistic Development/New Dramatists), Erik Ramsey (Director of Innovation, WordBRIDGE Lab; Professor, Ohio University MFA Playwriting Program), Heather McDonald (Playwright/Director), Ignacia Delgado (Coordinator/Sundance Institute), Ilana M. Brownstein (Founding Dramaturg, Playwrights’ Commons Director of New Work,Company One), Janice Paran (Dramaturg), Janine Sobeck (VP of Communications, LMDA), Jerry Patch (Director of Artistic Development, Manhattan Theatre Club), Jessica Burgess (Artistic Director, The Inkwell), John Glore (Associate Artistic Director, South Coast Repertory), Jojo Ruf (General Manager, National New Play Network), John Baker (Literary Manager, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), Joy Meads (Literary Associate/Center Theatre Group), Julie Felise Dubiner (Associate Director: American Revolutions – OSF), Karen Zacarias (Resident Playwright at Arena Stage), Lauren Gunderson (Playwright), Lauren Halvorsen, (Literary Associate, The Studio Theatre), Liz Engelman (Director, Tofte Lake Center/Alumnae Relations, Hedgebrook), Liz Frankel (Literary Manager, The Public Theater), Madeleine Oldham (Director, the ground floor and Resident Dramaturg, Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Martin Kettling (Literary Manager, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), Matthew Gardiner (Associate Artistic Director, Signature Theatre), Miriam Weisfeld (Director of Artistic Development, Woolly Mammoth), Nan Barnett, Otis Ramsey-Zoe (Future Classics Program Coordinator, The Classical Theatre of Harlem), Patrick Flick (Associate Artistic Director/Orlando Shakespeare Theater), Polly Carl (Director, American Voices New Play Institute), Rachel Chavkin (Artistic Director, the TEAM), Raphael Martin (Literary & Humanities Manager, Soho Rep), Shirley Serotsky (Director of Literary and Public Programs, Theater J), Tanya Palmer (Director of New Play Development, Goodman Theatre).

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