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Waylon Lenk is an Oregon-based dramaturg and grant writer. Recent artistic projects have been as a consultant on a film in pre-production by Bad Robot, the dramaturg on Yvette Nolan’s English-to-English translations of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, and as a dramaturg on Randy Reinholz’s Off the Rails at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Lenk has also presented work at the Many Nations…

Luan Schooler is the Director of New Play Development & Dramaturgy at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon. Since starting there in 2015, she has initiated projects with Yussef El Guindi, Larissa FastHorse, Linda Alper, Andrea Stolowitz, Dael Orlandersmith, Hansol Jung, Anthony Hudson, and Susannah Mars. Before joining Artists Rep, she was Literary Manager/Dramaturg at…

Kimberly Colburn (Dramaturg) is the Producer of New Work Development at Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto. She’s collaborating on many projects in development, including the musical Dixon Road by Fatuma Adar with Musical Stage Company, the musical Rose by Sarah Wilson and Mike Ross with Soulpepper Theatre, American Fast by Kareem Fahmy with Denver Center, and Hysterical…

Rob Melrose is the Founding Artistic Director of the Cutting Ball Theater and works nationally as a freelance director. He has directed at The Public Theater (Pericles, Prince of Tyre), The Guthrie Theater (Happy Days, Freud’s Last Session, Pen, Julius Caesar – with the Acting Company); The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Troilus and Cressida – in…

John Dias assumed his position as Artistic Director of Two River Theater in 2010 after working as a producer and dramaturg in New York for over 20 years. In partnership with Managing Director Michael Hurst he has brought new acclaim and vitality to the 28-year-old theater, expanding the theater’s campus in August 2019 with the…

MARTINE KEI GREEN-ROGERS (Dramaturg) is the Dean of the Theatre School at DePaul University. Her dramaturgical credits include its not a trip,its a journey, He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and The Ohio State Murders at Round House Theatre; Wind in the Door and Long Way Down at the Kennedy Center; The Catastrophist at Marin;…

Lezlie C. Cross is an expert in the text and production of Shakespeare’s plays across time and geography. Currently she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Portland where she directs for the program as well as teaching dramaturgy, playwriting, and theatre history. Her professional dramaturgy work has been seen at regional theatres across…

Desdemona Chiang is a Taiwan-born American stage director and writer based in Seattle, WA and Ashland, OR. She works in a variety of genres, including new plays, Shakespeare, and musicals. Chiang is known for her visceral, no-nonsense approach to theatre, with her distinct point of view as an immigrant and Asian American woman, and an…

Natsuko Ohama is a professor of theatre practice at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Trained under legendary voice teacher Kristin Linklater, she is a Master teacher of the Linklater approach to voice as well as a Louis Colainni designated speech teacher. Ohama is a founding member and permanent faculty member of Shakespeare and Company…