Jess Applebaum is Literary Manager for One Year Lease Theater Company and collaborates with Happiness Machines, Enthuse Theater, Yinzerspielen and directors Anna Brenner and Simón Hanukai. Last spring she co-presented "Dramaturg for Hire: Contextual Dramaturgy for a Global (St)age" at the conference Alternative Dramaturgies of the New Millennium in Tangiers, Morocco and curated a discussion on Devised Performance Dramaturgy at LMDA's annual conference. Her article "Finding the Hyphenate - Embodying Dramaturgy" appears in The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, edited by Magda Romanska. Jess holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University and an MA in Performance Studies from NYU.