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Dramaturgy as a Creative Practice

All too often, dramaturgy is seen as a fixed and unchanging field focused solely on research and writing. However, dramaturgs are artists, and dramaturgy is a creative and artistic practice.

This list has a few pieces that highlight the creativity of the field of dramaturgy and its artistry.

three actors onstage
Essay
11 February 2020

Devika Ranjan talks about the ways in which migration can influence performance structures, what she has identified as “migratory dramaturgy.”

Essay
20 August 2012

What does it means to teach dramaturgy, and how do the pratical and theoretical intersect to inform this oft-misunderstood practice?

Essay

Creating Meaning

19 August 2015

In the second installment of his media design series, Daniel Fine discusses the important connection between media design and dramaturgy in effective storytelling onstage.

Headshot of Heidi Taylor.
Essay

An Interview with Heidi Taylor

26 June 2013

Elaine Avila interviews Vancouver-based dramaturg and director Heidi Taylor.

Convening attendees sit in a circle.
Essay
29 February 2012

Amrita Ramanan describes her literary office of the future—a place with no walls, no seperations, and no more viewing dramaturgy as an isolated practice.

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