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<span style="font-weight: 400;">During our </span><a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2020-2021-season/deep-dive-tom-stoppards-leopoldstadt/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deep Dive</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2020-2021-season/theatre-thought/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theatre &amp; Thought</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> series, audiences got a glimpse into the dramaturgical process. With each production, the material was examined from multiple perspectives, from the authority of lived experiences to scholarly history to analytical critique.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">These series allowed audiences to participate in creative journeys fueled by dramaturgical practices that are usually behind-the-scenes efforts done well before viewers ever consume the staged production. The opportunity to delve into the impressive world of dramaturgy provides new nuance in understanding and appreciating all the work that goes into theatrical processes. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Before each reading of the plays, audiences witnessed a truncated dramaturgical process. Viewing the background lectures provided by different figures every week, they were presented with the types of information that dramaturgs often come across and hand over to the director. Yet, only snippets of this journey were seen. Had each been a full production, the dramaturgical process would be even more in-depth.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The dramaturg is vital to all the works a theatre produces. From the realism of design to the choices of the director, the dramaturg is present and equipped with the knowledge and research skills necessary to make sure each production comes to life. Court is grateful for all the hard work our dramaturgs do to bring creative visions to the stage, and for how our unique connection to the University of Chicago often leads to an even greater depth of scholarship surrounding the plays wee produce.</span>

Interested in delving deeper into the dramaturgical process? Tune into our next Theatre &amp; Thought production, <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/about/blog/theatre-thought-caryl-churchills-fen-the-dramaturgical-process/"><em>Caryl Churchill's FEN + The Dramaturgical Process</em></a>!"
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          string(3205) "<a href="https://www.melissaduprey.com/"><b>Melissa DuPrey</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a multidisciplinary artist with roots from Humboldt Park, Chicago. She is also a nationally recognized stand-up comic and critically-acclaimed solo artist with 4 full-length solo shows and 1 full-length play. DuPrey is also a community organizer and spiritualist who also launched The Good Grief Project- an extension of the social justice component from her play GOOD GRIEF where communities of color are connected to local, accessible and multidisciplinary mental and spiritual wellness practitioners of color. She is a featured actor in the Emmy-nominated web-series </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brown Girls </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and has many regional and non regional theater and film credits. TV credits include a recurring appearance on “Empire” (FOX), “The Resident” (FOX), “Chicago PD” (NBC), and “The Chi” (Showtime). As a musician and active member of her community, she is dedicated to the preservation of Puerto Rican culture by way of the folkloric music, Bomba y Plena, with Africaribe and Las BomPleneras. She is currently an Ensemble Member at UrbanTheater Company and Artistic Associate at Sideshow Theater.</span>

<b>Gina Freed</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, born on January 22nd, 1944 and </span><b>Karl Freed</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, born on September 24th, 1942 met at a mixer at Columbia University in 1960, both as teenagers. Gina has worked as a geriactric nurse for the Visiting Nurses association since 1964. Karl studied chemical engineering and became an accomplished theorist specializing in polymers. During Karl’s NATO fellowship in Manchester, England, Gina and Karl welcomed the first of two daughters, Nicole. A few years later, their second daughter, Michele, completed their family. Karl continued to mentor over 50 PhD students through the Math and Science program at the University of Chicago as a holistic and nurturing professor. Karl has had over 500 articles and books published in the field of chemical engineering. Gina carried a patient load of 40 until her retirement in 2016. Currently, Gina and Karl Freed both reside in Hyde Park as Karl battles Parkinson’s disease with Gina as his full-time caretaker. They have been happily married for over 50 years, and say the key to a successful marriage is respect for one another and support of their individual goals and dreams.</span>

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          string(5836) "<a href="http://graytalentgroup.com/talent/kelli-simpkins/"><b>Kelli Simpkins</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (she/they) is a theater, film and television artist whose career has spanned thirty years. They are dedicated to telling stories often excluded from the mainstream that focus on class, queerness, disenfranchisement and the other. They are a company member of Tectonic Theater Project, and are one of the original creators/dramaturges/performers of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Laramie Project.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> She appears in the HBO film of the same name, for which she and fellow company members share a Humanitas Prize and an Emmy nomination.  Kelli co-wrote, directed and devised an original play at WMU called </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good Death,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">was performed at the Kennedy Center’s Region III American College Theatre Festival.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Currently, they are fundraising to produce </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">QUEER IN(N)</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">,  a curated, queer, generative online arts gallery based on their verbatim interviews with LGBTQIA+ youth/elders in Chicago. They will commission multidisciplinary queer artists to create new works to bring these interviews to light. After working in New York and all over the US, Kelli relocated to Chicago, where they’ve performed at Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman, ATC, Timeline, Victory Gardens and About Face Theater, where they are also an artistic associate. She has simultaneously spent numerous years developing, collaborating on and performing award winning, socially engaged, interview based documentary projects in the style of Laramie—including </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The People’s Temple </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spill. </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kelli’s TV and film credits include </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Slice, Proven Innocent, Chicago Fire </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chicago PD</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Patriot, Betrayal, A League of Their Own, Chasing Amy </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Law &amp; Order: C.I. </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kelli is a contributing writer to the book</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">MOMENT WORK—Tectonic Theater Project’s Process of Devising Theater</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. She is also a teaching artist and educator who has led training labs throughout the country. They are a proud recipient of the 2013 3ARTS award. Kelli is represented by Gray Talent Group and NYC manager Jodi Schoenbrun Carter at 1022m Management.</span>

<a href="https://vanissajamesfineart.com/"><b>Vanissa James</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was born in Harlem NYC and lived the first years of her life in the Bronx, before relocating to Los Angeles at the age of seven. She has been a talented artist from an early age, starting with a love of paint-by-number sets and pencil drawing and moving in her adult life to painting oil portraits. Today, Vanissa paints exclusively in watercolors, with a focus on floral art, which she also teaches. Vanissa began her work life with the USPS, where she moved through the ranks from mail clerk to Postmaster Secretary to Accounting Department supervisor. She went on to work in international finance with CitiCorp for years before switching gears to become a fundraising researcher for the United Negro College Fund. She has lived all over the U.S., the Caribbean and Canada. She has been retired for a decade but keeps supremely busy. She is teaching herself to play the flute, is learning Spanish, listens to smooth jazz and is starting a new ecommerce business. She has lived a huge life—working, traveling, going to theater, museums, and concerts (where she saw Prince, Nina Simone, Sting, Mick Jagger, David Bowie and more famous musicians perform live!). Vanissa has dreams of visiting London and Tuscany on her next big adventures. She is an adventurous spirit, an entrepreneur, a curious learner—someone who never stops living her life to the fullest. Her favorite flower is the tulip. Her dad was her biggest inspiration. Learn more about Vanissa at:</span><a href="https://www.vanissajames.com/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">vanissajamesfineart.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><a href="https://courses.paintinginwatercolor.com/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">courses.paintinginwatercolor.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and</span><a href="https://comfylifestylestudio.com/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">comfylifestylestudio.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span>

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          string(6467) "<a href="http://www.markjefferyartist.org/"><b>Mark Jeffery</b></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a Chicago based performance/installation artist, curator and Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1994 Mark Jeffery has developed unconventional collaborations with visual artists, scholars, video artists, sound artists, new media and code artists, dancers, choreographers, curators, and writers. In 2012, he co-founded the language, performance, and technology collective Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality (ATOM-r). ATOM-r premiered its first work The Operature in 2014 and in 2017 premiered Kjell Theøry a performance and exhibition created through two residencies at The International Museum of Surgical Science and The Graham Foundation. ATOM-r is currently in research and development of their new work, Rhinestone Cowboy that they anticipate to complete in winter of 2021. He is organizer of the IN&gt;TIME Tri Annual performance festival hosted by multiple venues in Chicago. The last edition was in the winter of 2019. Mark was a former member of the internationally renowned Goat Island Performance Group from 1996 - 2009. Recent performances and exhibitions include: Graham Foundation, Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, Alfred De Vrove, Prague, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, Performance Arcade, Wellington, NZ, Australian Centre for Moving Image, Melbourne and 606 Trail, Chicago. Since Summer 2019  he has collaborated with Shannon Stratton, Kelly Kaczynski and Kelly Llyod on a 3 year long research and exhibition and performance project at The Poor Farm, Wisconsin that will culminate in a large-scale exhibition summer 2022. Since summer of 2018, Mark has created a performance and exhibition space in his Ukranian Village home, called Ohklahomo. The new space allows for emerging and established artists to connect, make new experimental work and also always has a dinner component. </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/user2965888"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://vimeo.com/user2965888</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> |</span><a href="http://atom-r.com/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">http://atom-r.com/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> |</span><a href="http://www.in-time-performance.org/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">http://www.in-time-performance.org/</span></a>

<b>Kevin J. Shannon</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a dancer, potter, artist, and teacher creating and living in Chicago, IL. Kevin received his BFA from The Juilliard School and has been dancing with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago since 2007. As a dancer, Kevin has performed works by Kyle Abraham, William Forsythe, Aszure Barton, and Crystal Pite among many others. He has led the Intermediate/Advanced Hubbard Street Summer Intensive, teaches master classes and dance workshops around the world, and is a guest teacher for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s main company. In addition, Kevin is a certified IMAGE TECH for Dancers™ teacher. Currently he is collaborating with the interdisciplinary performing artist and teacher Mark Jeffery through Chicago Dancemakers Forum 10x10 Crossbody Collaborations.</span>

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<b>Sarah E. Lauzen </b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who do you think you are? </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">writer. reader. editor. publisher. literary agent. instructor. administrator. IT analyst. cat rescuer. recovery trainer. artist. worked in literary, academic, and trade/commercial publishing. fiction editor of Chicago Review, culminating in a Special Section on In{Re}novative fiction. (See short memoir of those years in CR 59:4/60, 2016). published in over 30 markets including Chicago Magazine, Chicago Reader, American Book Review, New York Arts Journal, and Postmodern FIction: A Bio-Bibliographic Guide. won an Illinois Arts Council Award. Developed and taught Modernist Creative Writing at University of Chicago, Newberry Library, Columbia College, and independently. Created Other Literary Services to secure publication for beginning writers in literary markets. Since 2014, local meeting facilitator for SMART Recovery and member of the online Facilitator DIstance Training Team. Also volunteer with Hyde Park Cats.  With Indie City Writers, we’ve held readings at 57th Street Books and elsewhere. Several years ago, took my first art class, to explore visual ways of seeing/telling, to not be bound by words, to unblock. Joined the ongoingThursday Salon (65+) where we discuss new artists every week and share work. This contact, these classes, give me hope. Due to mobility issues and covid I’ve been apartment-bound since February. Too much time to think. As tIme passes, I have more questions than answers. How did this happen? Where did time go? Where am I going? What do I need? What do I want? Artists + Elders showed up at the perfect moment. What remains. Traces show through. We might call our project Pentimento. Old paint ageing on canvas can become transparent and reveal what was originally painted underneath, the painter’s earlier drafts. It is a peek into the past, a collaboration of sorts.  Creative collaboration. My artists drew me in, listened, respected, laughed, and produced brilliant transformative performance.  An intimate connection and (re)connection between former strangers. We share the fluidity of movement and memories, light and language. The process of collaboration and friendships are the real gift. In this time of solitude and uncertainty, we </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">can</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> know each other. We look through each other’s eyes. As a teenager I wrote notes under peeling, torn wallpaper in my bedroom (notes left to a house that held too many secrets?) Who was the writing under the wallpaper written for? Perhaps it was written For You.</span>
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          string(2462) "<a href="http://chicagodancemakers.org/role-member/christopher-mad-dog-thomas/"><strong>Christopher Mad Dog Thomas</strong></a> is the program manager and creative director for <a href="https://www.kuumbalynx.com/">Kuumba Lynx</a>, a not-for-profit Hip Hop and performing arts organization. His artistic inquiry is deeply rooted in social liberation through artistic expression, and footwork is his primary dance form to convey that message. He has been with KL for the past 15 years as the program manager and head dance choreographer, and he creates 45 min to 1 hour theater productions with 50 youth from across the city covering social and economic issues in the city and around the world. These productions take months to create because of the heavy research and understanding of the topics that we want to address around toxic masculinity, rape culture, racism, and violence towards black women.

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          string(3571) "<a href="https://darlingshearblog.wordpress.com/"><b>Darling Shear</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a Chicago Native but has roots in Atlanta where Darling started dance training. Darling attended North Springs Charter School of the performing arts where Darling was trained in Ballet, Modern, Jazz and African. Darling began dancing professionally right out of high school and in that time worked with many great choreographers. The highlights were working with Bubba Carr choreography/artistic director to Cher for 12yrs and counting, Rhonda Henriksen soloist with Hubbard Street and Twyla Tharp, Tracy Vogt former Philadanco dancer, Hinton Battle the Original Scarecrow from the broadway production of “The Wiz” and Lauri Stallings Hubbard street soloist and founder/artistic director of gloATL. Darling moved back to Chicago the summer of 2011 to start Suna Dance a collaborative artist group and had the first performance in November of 2011. Darling, a freelance dancer/choreographer in the city has worked with The Fly Honeys of the The Inconvenience, Body Cartography of Minneapolis, Links Hall, Victoria Bradford, Chicago AIDS Foundation, chances dances, no small plan productions, Slo’Mo, the Public hotel, Soho House Chicago, Growing Power inc., expo Chicago, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, the school of the art Institute, Depaul museum, University of Chicago, University of Illinois in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago Film Archive, Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, Salonathon, and Open TV beta. In 2018 Darling was chosen as the cover model and also quoted in Micah Salkind's Oxford published book 'Do you remember house? Chicago's queer of color underground'. Followed by receiving the Between Gestures scholarship to Austria to attend Impulstanz in Vienna also the Chicago Dancemakers Forum fellowship and Links Hall CoMission Fellowship along with a 3Arts nomination in 2019. Darlings career has been one with a strong spiritual center and allowance of universal well-being.</span>

<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3721359/"><b>Efé </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">(pronounced ee-Fay) </span><b>McWorter</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> hails from the ‘worlds’ of Concert Dance, Arts in Education and Cultural Administration in Chicago where she has been affectionately named Ms. Mac and MaMaE!! Embracing the ancient traditions of yoga to, “tame the cerebral, transform the physical and energize the spiritual,” she has joyously extended her love of performance to the World of Entertainment through television, film, print, theatre and commercials.  Awarded the 2019 Best Actress by the DC Black Film Festival for her work in the short film, TOGETHER, Efé describes her Hollywood Acting Career as a “Beautiful Cinderella Story.”  One that is truly obtainable for anyone with latent desires to bring forth and share their talent.  And in Efé’s case, this all began as she proudly traversed into her 60’s. Grandmother to two fine young men, an actor and classical violist, Efé is grateful for the opportunities Los Angeles has extended to her to continue her deep commitment to a life of JOY, enlightenment, illumination, mentorship and the beauty that lies in the telling of stories through all media outlets.  She thanks her beautiful talented daughter, Mei-Ling, for opening this fascinating world to her. </span>
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          string(5696) "<a href="https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/08/20/kelvin-roston-jr-wins-2020-nicholas-rudall-classic-artist-award/"><b>Kelvin Roston Jr.</b></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is an actor, singer, musician and playwright. He is the writer and performer of a one-person-show, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twisted Melodies</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a look at mental illness through the eyes of legendary soul singer and musician, Donny Hathaway, which he has toured nationally. Kelvin was last seen as Clem and other characters in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Day Of Absence </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">with Congo Square Theatre Co where he is an ensemble member. Before that, he was seen as King in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">King Hedley II </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and as Oedipus in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oedipus Rex </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">at Court Theater. Other Chicagoland theaters include: Court, Paramount, Marriott-Lincolnshire, Goodman, ITC, Eta, ATC, Writers, Black Ensemble, Timeline, Northlight, Steppenwolf. Regional: The Black Rep(St. Louis, MO), Fulton(Lancaster, PA), New Theatre(Overland Park, KS), MSMT(Brunswick, ME), Baltimore Center Stage(Baltimore, MD), Mosaic(WASHINGTON DC), Apollo(New York, NY). International: Orb(Tokyo, Japan), Festival Hall(Osaka, Japan). Television: Chicago Med, Chicago PD, KFC, Instant Care, Ace Hardware. Film: Get a Job, Princess Cyd, Breathing Room. Awards: Jeff Award, 3 BTA Awards, 2 Black Excellence Awards, NAMI Award. Kelvin is a proud member of AEA and represented by Paonessa Talent.</span>

<a href="https://beverlyartcenter.org/17/events/fps/"><b>Delia Jolly Gray</b></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a true renaissance woman. She began her career as an elementary school teacher in New York and, then, in Chicago for six years. Though a ‘born teacher’, as others dubbed her, she was called to be an artist. Her start as an actress was with The Experimental Black Actors Guild (X-BAG), a theatrical troupe on the south side of Chicago during the 1970’s. Some of her theater performance credits include </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Raisin In The Sun, Steal Away, Purlie, The Amen Corner, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miss Reardon Drinks A Little</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Delia is just as fierce a business woman as she is a performer working at J. Walter Thompson and, later, at Ogilvy &amp; Mather as Director of Business Affairs and the sole negotiator for celebrities to appear in advertising campaigns for such national clients as Sears, Equal, Klondike Bars, and the local Illinois Lottery, featuring spokespersons the likes of CHER, Lauren Hutton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Bennett, Bob Knight, Michael Clarke Duncan, Buddy Guy, John Mahoney, and others. She was appointed the first President of the Board of Directors for The Chicago Theater Co, an Equity theater company, formally, located on Chicago’s south side, created by Douglas Alan Mann and Chuck Smith. She held that position for eight years before her return to the stage as an actress and director. Some of her directing credits include </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mens </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">by Sara Finney (Joseph Jefferson Award nod, best director), </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Train Is Coming </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">by McKinley Johnson (Black Theater Alliance Award, Best Direction/Musical), </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miss Dessa </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">by Shirley Hardy Leonard, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Being Beautiful </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">by McKinley Johnson, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Te Amo: A Dancical </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">by Pascual Olivera, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s So Quiet Here </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seed: A Musical</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, two one-acts by June Seigel, and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Red Death </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">by Walter Moseley, adapted by David Barr (New York Mystery Writer Guild Award, Best Adaptation of a Novel). Now as a senior citizen, still active in theater as a director (recently directing a virtual reading of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Front Porch Society </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">by Melda Beaty), Ms. Gray spends her time building 1” scale miniature roomboxes and wall dioramas.</span>
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          string(3010) "<a href="http://graytalentgroup.com/talent/michael-pogue/"><b>Michael Pogue’s</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> first muse was the written and spoken word. At the Guild Complex, he performed his poetry for a few years before attending Columbia College in Theater. He has worked on stages and recently started appearing onscreen. He currently works in the Education dept at Court Theatre as a teaching artist going on ten years. He loves to listen to Blues and Jazz music and plays around town jamming with some of the most reputable local musicians on his guitar and harmonica.</span>

<a href="https://www.karenihirsch.com/"><b>Karen I. Hirsch</b></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is an international award-winning visual artist based in Chicago. Her work has been published internationally in magazines, newspapers and books including Communication Arts and Graphis photo annuals. She has received grants from the City of Chicago, the Illinois Arts Council and the Fulbright Foundation. Hirsch studied with renowned photographers Ernst Haas, Jay Maisel and Arnold Newman. In 2007, the Chinese government invited her with nine other American photographers to document the city of Rizhao. Karen is active in the photo community. She is a member of the American Photographic Artists, served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Media Photographers- Chicago/Midwest and is currently co-president of Fort Dearborn-Chicago Photo Forum, an historic photographic organization. Hirsch's prints have been showcased at the Hyde Park Art Center, the Bridgeport Art Center and the Martha Schneider Gallery in Chicago, as well as galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Palm Beach, Florida. The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs invited Hirsch to produce a 25 year retrospective of her photography of Chicago which was displayed at the Richard J. Daley Civic Center. Hirsch has photographed U.S. presidents, entertainment and sports icons as well as top authors and business executives. In recent years, Hirsch has concentrated on creating abstracts, collages and graphic art in addition to her editorial photography. Hirsch has been interviewed on WMAQ-TV (NBC Chicago), WTTW (PBS) and Start TV, a new national network affiliated with CBS, regarding her art and career. Her artwork is found in corporate and private collections.</span>
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          string(3685) "<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dramaturgy, the concept as we know it today, formally originated in Germany with G.E. Lessing’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hamburgische Dramaturgie</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, in which he examined the production of drama and how to improve it via deeper research. German playwright and theatre director Bertolt Brecht went on to further develop the dramaturg’s role. Beginning with Brecht, the dramaturg examined not only narrative and dialogue, but also the design and other aspects of the production. They think textually and thematically about works.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <img class="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Hamburgische_Dramaturgie_%28Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing%2C_1966%29.jpg/378px-Hamburgische_Dramaturgie_%28Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing%2C_1966%29.jpg" alt="File:Hamburgische Dramaturgie (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1966).jpg" width="157" height="250" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Hamburgische Dramaturgie. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, München 1966. Image Author: Verlagsgruppe Random House.</em></p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dramaturgy is the theory, study, and practice of dramatic composition. It is an exploration of and within the world of the play, as well as how that world interacts with our own. As each play and production are unique, the dramaturg’s actions differ slightly as each process requires a unique tactic to approach it. For some productions, more research and discussions are needed to tease out the inner themes of the play and bring them out on stage. Even with productions that may not have a traditional narrative, a dramaturg is still critical to understanding and developing important themes for the staged version. The dramaturg thinks of the construction of the work and how all the pieces of the production, from lighting to sound to clothes to dialogue to movement, interact to convey the meaning of the piece.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A dramaturg is an essential part of the production team for a play. The dramaturg delves deep into the script, reading it numerous times, providing a textual analysis, and diving into the history of the text and playwright. They provide information about the history of past productions of the play and contribute to design and production meetings.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The dramaturg helps the director in constructing and realizing their visions of the play into reality. The dramaturg does the research and reports back to the director with all the desired information. They also provided resource materials to the company, giving them notes on pronunciation, definitions, and more. They appraise directorial and design decisions to determine how they will be received by an audience.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The dramaturg is vital to any production, and their important work drives the coherent realization of plays for audiences to watch. Dramaturgy is alive in theatres all over the world today and continues to retain its position of utmost significance in their productions.</span>

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<strong>Want to learn more about the world of dramaturgy? </strong>Register for our <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/about/blog/theatre-thought-caryl-churchills-fen-the-dramaturgical-process/">Theatre &amp; Thought series</a> on <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/about/blog/theatre-thought-caryl-churchills-fen-the-dramaturgical-process/">Caryl Churchill's <em>Fen</em> + The Dramaturgical Process</a>!"
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          string(3326) "<a href="https://taps.uchicago.edu/people/emily-hooper-lansana"><b>Emily Hooper Lansana</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a cultural worker, arts administrator, educator, performing artist and mother. For more than twenty-five years, she has performed as a storyteller, sharing her work with audiences throughout Chicago and across the country. She often performs with Performance Duo: In the Spirit. She enjoys passing on traditions to young people as a coach and mentor with the nationally recognized Rebirth Poetry Ensemble. Her work seeks to give voice to those whose stories are often untold especially those of the African diaspora. Currently she serves as Director of Community Arts for the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago. She lives on the Southside of Chicago with her sons.</span>

<b>Shaila Small </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">was</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">born and raised in New York City.  Being creative has always been what makes her happy.  One of the few photos taken of her in early childhood, shows a smiling pre-schooler standing in front of an easel, paintbrush in hand. Educated in NYC public schools, her first job was as recorder/transcriber for meetings and conferences at the National Board of the YWCA in NYC. While she and her husband, Edward, raised two daughters in the city, she became active in her community library and began to explore theories of early childhood education. After the children were settled in school, she took a job with </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Magazine</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, writing promo copy for subscription solicitation. She then went on to devote many years working in the field of corporate communications. Retirement meant lots of travel and nearly a decade as a docent at the University of North Carolina’s Ackland Art Museum. Three years ago, the decision was made to relocate to Chicago, where her oldest daughter has made her home since graduate school.  Shaila describes Chicago as a “truly beautiful city” with the added bonus of being near family and seeing her grandsons grow up. </span>
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<em>This presentation was filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic. In keeping with University of Chicago guidelines, COVID-19 protocols were followed carefully, and oversight was provided to promote the health and safety of all participants and crew throughout the filming process.</em>"
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">During our </span><a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2020-2021-season/deep-dive-tom-stoppards-leopoldstadt/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deep Dive</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2020-2021-season/theatre-thought/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theatre &amp; Thought</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> series, audiences got a glimpse into the dramaturgical process. With each production, the material was examined from multiple perspectives, from the authority of lived experiences to scholarly history to analytical critique.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">These series allowed audiences to participate in creative journeys fueled by dramaturgical practices that are usually behind-the-scenes efforts done well before viewers ever consume the staged production. The opportunity to delve into the impressive world of dramaturgy provides new nuance in understanding and appreciating all the work that goes into theatrical processes. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Before each reading of the plays, audiences witnessed a truncated dramaturgical process. Viewing the background lectures provided by different figures every week, they were presented with the types of information that dramaturgs often come across and hand over to the director. Yet, only snippets of this journey were seen. Had each been a full production, the dramaturgical process would be even more in-depth.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The dramaturg is vital to all the works a theatre produces. From the realism of design to the choices of the director, the dramaturg is present and equipped with the knowledge and research skills necessary to make sure each production comes to life. Court is grateful for all the hard work our dramaturgs do to bring creative visions to the stage, and for how our unique connection to the University of Chicago often leads to an even greater depth of scholarship surrounding the plays wee produce.</span>

Interested in delving deeper into the dramaturgical process? Tune into our next Theatre &amp; Thought production, <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/about/blog/theatre-thought-caryl-churchills-fen-the-dramaturgical-process/"><em>Caryl Churchill's FEN + The Dramaturgical Process</em></a>!"
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      string(2555) "<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15109" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Fen_800x300.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="300" />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">During our </span><a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2020-2021-season/deep-dive-tom-stoppards-leopoldstadt/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deep Dive</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2020-2021-season/theatre-thought/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theatre &amp; Thought</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> series, audiences got a glimpse into the dramaturgical process. With each production, the material was examined from multiple perspectives, from the authority of lived experiences to scholarly history to analytical critique.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">These series allowed audiences to participate in creative journeys fueled by dramaturgical practices that are usually behind-the-scenes efforts done well before viewers ever consume the staged production. The opportunity to delve into the impressive world of dramaturgy provides new nuance in understanding and appreciating all the work that goes into theatrical processes. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Before each reading of the plays, audiences witnessed a truncated dramaturgical process. Viewing the background lectures provided by different figures every week, they were presented with the types of information that dramaturgs often come across and hand over to the director. Yet, only snippets of this journey were seen. Had each been a full production, the dramaturgical process would be even more in-depth.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The dramaturg is vital to all the works a theatre produces. From the realism of design to the choices of the director, the dramaturg is present and equipped with the knowledge and research skills necessary to make sure each production comes to life. Court is grateful for all the hard work our dramaturgs do to bring creative visions to the stage, and for how our unique connection to the University of Chicago often leads to an even greater depth of scholarship surrounding the plays wee produce.</span>

Interested in delving deeper into the dramaturgical process? Tune into our next Theatre &amp; Thought production, <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/about/blog/theatre-thought-caryl-churchills-fen-the-dramaturgical-process/"><em>Caryl Churchill's FEN + The Dramaturgical Process</em></a>!"
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      string(3205) "<a href="https://www.melissaduprey.com/"><b>Melissa DuPrey</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a multidisciplinary artist with roots from Humboldt Park, Chicago. She is also a nationally recognized stand-up comic and critically-acclaimed solo artist with 4 full-length solo shows and 1 full-length play. DuPrey is also a community organizer and spiritualist who also launched The Good Grief Project- an extension of the social justice component from her play GOOD GRIEF where communities of color are connected to local, accessible and multidisciplinary mental and spiritual wellness practitioners of color. She is a featured actor in the Emmy-nominated web-series </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brown Girls </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and has many regional and non regional theater and film credits. TV credits include a recurring appearance on “Empire” (FOX), “The Resident” (FOX), “Chicago PD” (NBC), and “The Chi” (Showtime). As a musician and active member of her community, she is dedicated to the preservation of Puerto Rican culture by way of the folkloric music, Bomba y Plena, with Africaribe and Las BomPleneras. She is currently an Ensemble Member at UrbanTheater Company and Artistic Associate at Sideshow Theater.</span>

<b>Gina Freed</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, born on January 22nd, 1944 and </span><b>Karl Freed</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, born on September 24th, 1942 met at a mixer at Columbia University in 1960, both as teenagers. Gina has worked as a geriactric nurse for the Visiting Nurses association since 1964. Karl studied chemical engineering and became an accomplished theorist specializing in polymers. During Karl’s NATO fellowship in Manchester, England, Gina and Karl welcomed the first of two daughters, Nicole. A few years later, their second daughter, Michele, completed their family. Karl continued to mentor over 50 PhD students through the Math and Science program at the University of Chicago as a holistic and nurturing professor. Karl has had over 500 articles and books published in the field of chemical engineering. Gina carried a patient load of 40 until her retirement in 2016. Currently, Gina and Karl Freed both reside in Hyde Park as Karl battles Parkinson’s disease with Gina as his full-time caretaker. They have been happily married for over 50 years, and say the key to a successful marriage is respect for one another and support of their individual goals and dreams.</span>

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      string(5836) "<a href="http://graytalentgroup.com/talent/kelli-simpkins/"><b>Kelli Simpkins</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (she/they) is a theater, film and television artist whose career has spanned thirty years. They are dedicated to telling stories often excluded from the mainstream that focus on class, queerness, disenfranchisement and the other. They are a company member of Tectonic Theater Project, and are one of the original creators/dramaturges/performers of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Laramie Project.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> She appears in the HBO film of the same name, for which she and fellow company members share a Humanitas Prize and an Emmy nomination.  Kelli co-wrote, directed and devised an original play at WMU called </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good Death,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">was performed at the Kennedy Center’s Region III American College Theatre Festival.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Currently, they are fundraising to produce </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">QUEER IN(N)</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">,  a curated, queer, generative online arts gallery based on their verbatim interviews with LGBTQIA+ youth/elders in Chicago. They will commission multidisciplinary queer artists to create new works to bring these interviews to light. After working in New York and all over the US, Kelli relocated to Chicago, where they’ve performed at Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman, ATC, Timeline, Victory Gardens and About Face Theater, where they are also an artistic associate. She has simultaneously spent numerous years developing, collaborating on and performing award winning, socially engaged, interview based documentary projects in the style of Laramie—including </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The People’s Temple </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spill. </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kelli’s TV and film credits include </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Slice, Proven Innocent, Chicago Fire </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chicago PD</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Patriot, Betrayal, A League of Their Own, Chasing Amy </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Law &amp; Order: C.I. </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kelli is a contributing writer to the book</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">MOMENT WORK—Tectonic Theater Project’s Process of Devising Theater</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. She is also a teaching artist and educator who has led training labs throughout the country. They are a proud recipient of the 2013 3ARTS award. Kelli is represented by Gray Talent Group and NYC manager Jodi Schoenbrun Carter at 1022m Management.</span>

<a href="https://vanissajamesfineart.com/"><b>Vanissa James</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was born in Harlem NYC and lived the first years of her life in the Bronx, before relocating to Los Angeles at the age of seven. She has been a talented artist from an early age, starting with a love of paint-by-number sets and pencil drawing and moving in her adult life to painting oil portraits. Today, Vanissa paints exclusively in watercolors, with a focus on floral art, which she also teaches. Vanissa began her work life with the USPS, where she moved through the ranks from mail clerk to Postmaster Secretary to Accounting Department supervisor. She went on to work in international finance with CitiCorp for years before switching gears to become a fundraising researcher for the United Negro College Fund. She has lived all over the U.S., the Caribbean and Canada. She has been retired for a decade but keeps supremely busy. She is teaching herself to play the flute, is learning Spanish, listens to smooth jazz and is starting a new ecommerce business. She has lived a huge life—working, traveling, going to theater, museums, and concerts (where she saw Prince, Nina Simone, Sting, Mick Jagger, David Bowie and more famous musicians perform live!). Vanissa has dreams of visiting London and Tuscany on her next big adventures. She is an adventurous spirit, an entrepreneur, a curious learner—someone who never stops living her life to the fullest. Her favorite flower is the tulip. Her dad was her biggest inspiration. Learn more about Vanissa at:</span><a href="https://www.vanissajames.com/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">vanissajamesfineart.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><a href="https://courses.paintinginwatercolor.com/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">courses.paintinginwatercolor.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and</span><a href="https://comfylifestylestudio.com/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">comfylifestylestudio.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span>

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      string(6467) "<a href="http://www.markjefferyartist.org/"><b>Mark Jeffery</b></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a Chicago based performance/installation artist, curator and Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1994 Mark Jeffery has developed unconventional collaborations with visual artists, scholars, video artists, sound artists, new media and code artists, dancers, choreographers, curators, and writers. In 2012, he co-founded the language, performance, and technology collective Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality (ATOM-r). ATOM-r premiered its first work The Operature in 2014 and in 2017 premiered Kjell Theøry a performance and exhibition created through two residencies at The International Museum of Surgical Science and The Graham Foundation. ATOM-r is currently in research and development of their new work, Rhinestone Cowboy that they anticipate to complete in winter of 2021. He is organizer of the IN&gt;TIME Tri Annual performance festival hosted by multiple venues in Chicago. The last edition was in the winter of 2019. Mark was a former member of the internationally renowned Goat Island Performance Group from 1996 - 2009. Recent performances and exhibitions include: Graham Foundation, Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, Alfred De Vrove, Prague, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, Performance Arcade, Wellington, NZ, Australian Centre for Moving Image, Melbourne and 606 Trail, Chicago. Since Summer 2019  he has collaborated with Shannon Stratton, Kelly Kaczynski and Kelly Llyod on a 3 year long research and exhibition and performance project at The Poor Farm, Wisconsin that will culminate in a large-scale exhibition summer 2022. Since summer of 2018, Mark has created a performance and exhibition space in his Ukranian Village home, called Ohklahomo. The new space allows for emerging and established artists to connect, make new experimental work and also always has a dinner component. </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/user2965888"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://vimeo.com/user2965888</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> |</span><a href="http://atom-r.com/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">http://atom-r.com/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> |</span><a href="http://www.in-time-performance.org/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">http://www.in-time-performance.org/</span></a>

<b>Kevin J. Shannon</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a dancer, potter, artist, and teacher creating and living in Chicago, IL. Kevin received his BFA from The Juilliard School and has been dancing with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago since 2007. As a dancer, Kevin has performed works by Kyle Abraham, William Forsythe, Aszure Barton, and Crystal Pite among many others. He has led the Intermediate/Advanced Hubbard Street Summer Intensive, teaches master classes and dance workshops around the world, and is a guest teacher for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s main company. In addition, Kevin is a certified IMAGE TECH for Dancers™ teacher. Currently he is collaborating with the interdisciplinary performing artist and teacher Mark Jeffery through Chicago Dancemakers Forum 10x10 Crossbody Collaborations.</span>

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<b>Sarah E. Lauzen </b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who do you think you are? </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">writer. reader. editor. publisher. literary agent. instructor. administrator. IT analyst. cat rescuer. recovery trainer. artist. worked in literary, academic, and trade/commercial publishing. fiction editor of Chicago Review, culminating in a Special Section on In{Re}novative fiction. (See short memoir of those years in CR 59:4/60, 2016). published in over 30 markets including Chicago Magazine, Chicago Reader, American Book Review, New York Arts Journal, and Postmodern FIction: A Bio-Bibliographic Guide. won an Illinois Arts Council Award. Developed and taught Modernist Creative Writing at University of Chicago, Newberry Library, Columbia College, and independently. Created Other Literary Services to secure publication for beginning writers in literary markets. Since 2014, local meeting facilitator for SMART Recovery and member of the online Facilitator DIstance Training Team. Also volunteer with Hyde Park Cats.  With Indie City Writers, we’ve held readings at 57th Street Books and elsewhere. Several years ago, took my first art class, to explore visual ways of seeing/telling, to not be bound by words, to unblock. Joined the ongoingThursday Salon (65+) where we discuss new artists every week and share work. This contact, these classes, give me hope. Due to mobility issues and covid I’ve been apartment-bound since February. Too much time to think. As tIme passes, I have more questions than answers. How did this happen? Where did time go? Where am I going? What do I need? What do I want? Artists + Elders showed up at the perfect moment. What remains. Traces show through. We might call our project Pentimento. Old paint ageing on canvas can become transparent and reveal what was originally painted underneath, the painter’s earlier drafts. It is a peek into the past, a collaboration of sorts.  Creative collaboration. My artists drew me in, listened, respected, laughed, and produced brilliant transformative performance.  An intimate connection and (re)connection between former strangers. We share the fluidity of movement and memories, light and language. The process of collaboration and friendships are the real gift. In this time of solitude and uncertainty, we </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">can</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> know each other. We look through each other’s eyes. As a teenager I wrote notes under peeling, torn wallpaper in my bedroom (notes left to a house that held too many secrets?) Who was the writing under the wallpaper written for? Perhaps it was written For You.</span>
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<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3721359/"><b>Efé </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">(pronounced ee-Fay) </span><b>McWorter</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> hails from the ‘worlds’ of Concert Dance, Arts in Education and Cultural Administration in Chicago where she has been affectionately named Ms. Mac and MaMaE!! Embracing the ancient traditions of yoga to, “tame the cerebral, transform the physical and energize the spiritual,” she has joyously extended her love of performance to the World of Entertainment through television, film, print, theatre and commercials.  Awarded the 2019 Best Actress by the DC Black Film Festival for her work in the short film, TOGETHER, Efé describes her Hollywood Acting Career as a “Beautiful Cinderella Story.”  One that is truly obtainable for anyone with latent desires to bring forth and share their talent.  And in Efé’s case, this all began as she proudly traversed into her 60’s. Grandmother to two fine young men, an actor and classical violist, Efé is grateful for the opportunities Los Angeles has extended to her to continue her deep commitment to a life of JOY, enlightenment, illumination, mentorship and the beauty that lies in the telling of stories through all media outlets.  She thanks her beautiful talented daughter, Mei-Ling, for opening this fascinating world to her. </span>
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<em>This presentation was filmed during the <span class="il">COVID</span>-19 pandemic. In keeping with University of Chicago guidelines,  <span class="il">COVID</span>-19 protocols were followed carefully, and oversight was provided to promote the health and safety of all participants and crew throughout the filming process.</em>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <img class="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Hamburgische_Dramaturgie_%28Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing%2C_1966%29.jpg/378px-Hamburgische_Dramaturgie_%28Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing%2C_1966%29.jpg" alt="File:Hamburgische Dramaturgie (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1966).jpg" width="157" height="250" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Hamburgische Dramaturgie. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, München 1966. Image Author: Verlagsgruppe Random House.</em></p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dramaturgy is the theory, study, and practice of dramatic composition. It is an exploration of and within the world of the play, as well as how that world interacts with our own. As each play and production are unique, the dramaturg’s actions differ slightly as each process requires a unique tactic to approach it. For some productions, more research and discussions are needed to tease out the inner themes of the play and bring them out on stage. Even with productions that may not have a traditional narrative, a dramaturg is still critical to understanding and developing important themes for the staged version. The dramaturg thinks of the construction of the work and how all the pieces of the production, from lighting to sound to clothes to dialogue to movement, interact to convey the meaning of the piece.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A dramaturg is an essential part of the production team for a play. The dramaturg delves deep into the script, reading it numerous times, providing a textual analysis, and diving into the history of the text and playwright. They provide information about the history of past productions of the play and contribute to design and production meetings.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The dramaturg helps the director in constructing and realizing their visions of the play into reality. The dramaturg does the research and reports back to the director with all the desired information. They also provided resource materials to the company, giving them notes on pronunciation, definitions, and more. They appraise directorial and design decisions to determine how they will be received by an audience.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The dramaturg is vital to any production, and their important work drives the coherent realization of plays for audiences to watch. Dramaturgy is alive in theatres all over the world today and continues to retain its position of utmost significance in their productions.</span>

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      string(3326) "<a href="https://taps.uchicago.edu/people/emily-hooper-lansana"><b>Emily Hooper Lansana</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a cultural worker, arts administrator, educator, performing artist and mother. For more than twenty-five years, she has performed as a storyteller, sharing her work with audiences throughout Chicago and across the country. She often performs with Performance Duo: In the Spirit. She enjoys passing on traditions to young people as a coach and mentor with the nationally recognized Rebirth Poetry Ensemble. Her work seeks to give voice to those whose stories are often untold especially those of the African diaspora. Currently she serves as Director of Community Arts for the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago. She lives on the Southside of Chicago with her sons.</span>

<b>Shaila Small </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">was</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">born and raised in New York City.  Being creative has always been what makes her happy.  One of the few photos taken of her in early childhood, shows a smiling pre-schooler standing in front of an easel, paintbrush in hand. Educated in NYC public schools, her first job was as recorder/transcriber for meetings and conferences at the National Board of the YWCA in NYC. While she and her husband, Edward, raised two daughters in the city, she became active in her community library and began to explore theories of early childhood education. After the children were settled in school, she took a job with </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Magazine</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, writing promo copy for subscription solicitation. She then went on to devote many years working in the field of corporate communications. Retirement meant lots of travel and nearly a decade as a docent at the University of North Carolina’s Ackland Art Museum. Three years ago, the decision was made to relocate to Chicago, where her oldest daughter has made her home since graduate school.  Shaila describes Chicago as a “truly beautiful city” with the added bonus of being near family and seeing her grandsons grow up. </span>
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