LMDA Review

What is now Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy was for many years the LMDA Review and before that, for three early issues, Program Notes, and initially, simply, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas: Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1986. Over the years, the Review has included essays, interviews, conference announcements and reports, interviews, transcripts of speeches, and organizational business (elections, bylaws, initiatives, awards, and so forth). On some occasions, multiple issues appeared in a single year; in others, none at all. In 1996 and 1997, volume 8.1 appears twice, an error in numbering that suggest to some extent the precarious history of its existence. Nevertheless, between 1986 and the present, a remarkable series of editors, associate editors, and authors with the assistance of several dedicated LMDA administrators published over fifty issues of the Review. They offer an album of snapshots not only of the ongoing life of an organization committed to cultivating, developing, and promoting the fields of dramaturgy and literary management but also into the field itself. This record of dramaturgical history in the Americas is housed at the University of Puget Sound’s Archives and Special Collections (Adriana Flores, archivist). Special thanks to Puget Sound Associate Library Director and Theatre Liaison librarian Lori Ricigliano for bringing the Review online.

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Review: The Newsletter of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, volume 13, issue 1

D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, Megan Monaghan, Arthur Ballet, Yvette Nolan, Liz Engelman, Maxine Kern, Marge Betley, Shannon O'Donnell, and Carrie Ryan

Contents include: Reading Review (Again), Radical from the Root, Arthur Ballet Recipient of the 2002 LMDA Loessing Award, Notes from the Lunatic Fringe, Regional Reports Info: News and Previews From All Over, Review is Inaugurating a New Section in the Next Issue: Projects-In-Process, and LMDA Prize in Drammatury 2002 The Elliott Hayes Award.

Issue editors: D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, Liz Engelman, Madeline Oldham, Jacob Zimmer
LMDA Review, volume 12, issue 2

Gretchen Haley, Maxine Kern, Jane Ruth Wagner, Kristen Gandrow, Lorenzo Mans, Brad Rothbart, Todd London, DD Kugler, Michele Volansky, and Cynthia Croot

Contents include: Relevance, Residency & Playwriting, The Dramaturgy Residency Project Overview, Residency Project One: Kristen Gandrow at Voice & Vision, Interview with the Dramaturg Kristen Gandrow, Residency Project Two: Brad Rothbart at INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center, Interview with the Dramaturg Brad Rothbart, Residency Project Three: Maxine Kern at New Dramatists, Interview with the Artistic Director Todd London, Interview with the Dramaturg Maxine Kern, Michele Volansky President-Elect of LMDA, LMDA at the Crossroads, Conference 2002 Vancouver, British Columbia, Conference Overview (tentative), LMDA Canada Report, The Musical Structure of Playwriting: A Planel Discussion, and Announcing our new Administrator Cynthia Croot.

Issue editor: Gretchen Haley
LMDA Review, volume 12, issue 1

Gretchen Haley, Jonathan Hammond, Amy Jensen, Lisa Lusero, Michele Volansky, Liz Engelman, Des Gallant, Amy Wegener, and Judith Rudakoff

Contents include: Re-Viewing Denver, University & Student Caucus, Keynote Ashara Ekundayo, Denver Theatre Artists on Local Theatre Ecology, Workshop Sessions Round 1: Dramaturgy & Architecture, Dramaturgical Voices Inside the Theatre, Dramaturgy/Making a Life, Workshop Sessions Round 2: New Play Festivals, Dramaturgical Voices Outside the Theatre, Educational Theatre, TheatreFest Playwrights, Advocacy, Elliott Hayes Award Winner Judith Rudakoff, and Regional VP Update.
Review: The Newsletter of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, volume 11, issue 3

Gretchen Haley, Amy Jensen, Jonathan Hammond, Lisa Lusero, Liz Engelman, Michele Volansky, Brian Quirt, Des Gallant, Amy Wegener, and Judith Rudakoff

Contents include: Section I: Re-Viewing Denver; The Conference in Detail; Dramaturgical Voices Outside the Theatre; Section II: Articles & Announcements.

Issue editor: Gretchen Haley
LMDA Review, volume 11, issue 2

M. Louise Lytle, Ginny Coates, Winston Neutel, Crystal Beliveau, Cindy SoRelle, Nancy Erickson, Brian Quirt, David Copelin, Michael Bigelow Dixon, Mary Blackstone, Michael Wright, Geoff Proehl, Wynn Rankin, Nakissa Etemad, Mirian Yahil-Wax, and Jonathan Rand

Contents include: A Letter to the Membership from the LMDA Board Chair, Dixon to the Guthrie, Office Update, Technology Notes, News from CEAD Montreal, LMDA Affiliates with ATHE, ATHE 2001 Practice, Theory, Technology and the New Student, Report on Canadian Caucus, Note to the Editor, The Experiment Tradition, Community and the Development of Scripts for Stage and Screen, A Collaborative Workshop, An Intern on Internships, Spotlight on Early Career Dramaturgs, Exciting News from the West Coast, Coming this Way, and Playscripts.com.
LMDA Review, volume 11, issue 1

Lynn M. Thomson, Geoff Proehl, Michael Bigelow Dixon, Amy Wegener, Sonya Sobieski, Liz Engelman, DD Kugler, Nichole Gantshar, Brian Quirt, Gavin Witt, Vanessa Porteous, and Marnie Andrews

Contents include: Advocacy Guidelines,LMDA Members Meet with the NEA, Update The Elliot Hayes Award,Update Script Exchange, Presentation Of Elliott Hayes Award to Rebecca Rugg, To Lynn Thomson, Conference Panels and Sessions, Conversations About Digital Dramaturgy, Key Note, Dramaturg As Generator, Multi-Authorship: Too Many Cooks?, Desperately Seeking Research, On Copyright, The Dramaturg As Advocate For The Arts On City, State/Provincial, And National Levels, Entrances And Exits, The (New Play) Workshop's The Thing, Anne Cattaneo On Commissioning New Work, LMDA Regions And VPs, News From Canada, News from Baltimore, News from Chicago, The Past Two Years, and On, Notes to Fellow LMDA Members, Spotlight on Early Career Dramturgs, Dramaturgy Opening Arena Stage, Internship at the Women's Project, Literary Residency in New York, Dramaturgy/Literary Management Internship at Arena Stage, Job Opening at UCSD, A Note to LMDA Members, Unity Fest 2001 Call for Scripts, Call for Directors, Actors, Dramaturgs, and Call for Updates to the LMDA Guide to Programs in Dramaturgy.
LMDA Review, volume 10, issue 2

Virginia Coates, Brian Quirt, Cindy SoRelle, Des Gallant, Terry Stoller, Bronwyn Eisenberg, Geoff Proehl, Winston Neutel, and Eugenio Barba

Contents include: New Annual Membership Expiration Date, A Rose by Any Other Word, Report on Canadian Caucus, Script Exchange, Dramaturgy Focus Group ATHE 2000 Dramaturgy Conference Planner, Dramaturgy The Power in the Words, Profiles in Dramaturgy: Alexis Greene, The Early Career Dramaturgy Group, LMDA Online Listserv Instructions, New World Theater Plans Second International Conference, Black Theatre Network Conference, New Visions 2000: One Theater World, ISTA, and the LMDA Archive.
LMDA Review, volume 10, issue 1

Gretchen Haley, Bronwyn Eisenberg, Brian Quirt, Geoff Proehl, Lue Morgan Douthit, Amy Wegener, Michele Volansky, Lee Devin, DD Kugler, Liz Engelman, Shirley Fishman, Lynn M. Thomson, Terry Stoller, Pannill Camp, Mary Resing, Winston Neutel, and James Macgruder

Contents include: Photo of Conference Participants Annual Conference 1999, Send in your Ballot, A Note to Ourselves, Increase in Dues and New Annual Membership Expiration Date, LMDA Archive, LMDA Administrator; LMDA Interns, Mid-Year Meeting, Early Career Dramaturg Program, Elliot Hayes Award 2000, Report on Canadian Caucus, Script Exchange, Report on the Dramaturgy Focus Group ATHE 1999, Elliot Hayes Award Winners Lue Douthit and Michel Volansky, Acceptance Speech Lue Morgan Douthit, Elliot Hayes Award Presentation to Michele Volansky for Space, On the Elliot Hayes Award Michele Volansky, Day One of the Conference, Day Two of the Conference, Day Three of the Conference, Day Four of the Conference, The Advocacy Caucus Presentation at the Conference, Final Thoughts, Conference 1999 Many Thanks, Arthur Ballet and the Office for Advanced Drama Research, Spotlight on Early Career Dramaturg Vanessa Porteous, A Working History of LMDA The Early Years, From Academia to Arena A Dramaturg's Education in the Real World, Tony Creamer and Death of a Salesman, Two Moments, Jobs and Projects, Scriptseeker.com, LMDA Online Listserv Instructions, Note from James Magruder, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas Bibliography 1999, Noted with Pleasure, and Internship Questionnaire.
LMDA Review, volume 9, issue 2

Mark Bly, Geoff Proehl, David Prosser, Bronwyn Eisenberg, Brian Quirt, Celise Kalke, Winston Neutel, Robert Brustein, John Wilson, Anne-Charlotte Harvey, Cynthia SoRelle, and John Lutterbie

Contents include: Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas Annual Conference 1999 Setting the Table: A Working Retreat, The State of the Profession Round One, Call for Nominations LMDA President-Elect, On Elliot Hayes and the LMDA Prize, Early Career Dramaturg Program, Report on Canadian Caucus Meeting, Introducing Celise Kalke, Research at the Theater Center, Script Exchange, LMDA Online, Education in the Arts, A Team Approach to Dramaturgy at Cornish College of the Arts, Process Translation: Translator/Dramaturg Meets Actor/Translator, Jobs, Disruption in Job Line Service, Dramaturgy Focus Group Association for Theater in Higher Education Toronto Conference, Report on the Dramaturgy Focus Group ATHE 1999, Recent Publications by Members, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas Bibliography 1999
LMDA Review, volume 9, issue 1

Jayme Koszyn, Vicky Abrash, Lee Devin, Michael Bigelow Dixon, Bronwyn Eisenberg, Liz Engelman, Lynn Thomson, Brian Quirt, Cindy SoRelle, Klaus van den Berg, Emily Morse, and Jenny Spencer

Contents include: Mid-Year Meetings, Words of Thanks from Jayme Koszyn Outgoing President of LMDA, Anne Cattaneo of Lincoln Center Theater Receives Dramaturgy Award, May I have the Envelope, Please?, Rent Settlement, On Advocacy, A VP is a VIP is a VP, LMDA Canada, Next Annual LMDA Conference, Early Career Dramaturg Program, Script Exchange, ATHE '99 Toronto Border to Board, ATHE '99 Toronto Debut Panel, ATHE ' 99 Toronto Call for Directors, Actors, Dramaturgs for the New Play Development Workshop, Report on Last June's Conference, Report on Last June's Conference LMDA University Caucus Pre-Conference and Source Books, Minutes June 1998, LMDA Job Line, Job Listings, and the Membership Directory, LMDA Online, Supplement to the LMDA Bibliography, and Call for Papers Theatre Topics: Dramaturgy, Pedagogy, Performance.
LMDA Review, volume 8, issue 2 (sic)

Michael Bigelow Dixon, Amy Wegener, Jayme Koszyn, Jerry Patch, Susan Booth, Matthew Arbour, Deborah Frockt, Jon Jory, and Anne Bogart

Contents include: Editor's Note, Notes from the President, Four Dramturgs for Dramaturgs, Jon Jory: An Editorial Response/Current Issues in Dramaturgy, and Anne Bogart: Dramaturging the Audience.

Issue editors: Michael Bigelow Dixon, Amy Wegener
LMDA Review, volume 8, issue 1 (sic)

Jayme Koszyn, Michele Volansky, Harriet Power, Geoff Proehl, Scott T. Cummings, and Lynn M. Thomson

Contents include: From the President, A Note on this Newsletter, A Call for Volunteers, Conference News: ATHE and LMDA, LMDA at ATHE: The Probable Conversion of a Skeptic, 1998 LMDA Conference, The 1997 LMDA Conference at Yale University: Looking Back, To My Colleagues (II), LMDA Advocacy Caucus, and Regional Vice-Presidents.

Issue editor: Michele Volansky
LMDA Review, volume 8, issue 1

Jayme Koszyn, Scott T. Cummings, Susan Jonas, Lynn M. Thomson, Geoff Proehl, Cindy SoRelle, John Lutterbie, and Richard Pettengill

Contents include: From the President, Jayme Koszyn, Blaulapalooza in Imilwaukee, Notes from Avignon: Diary of a Francophile Theatre Junkie, 1997 Conference News, Canadian Regional News, A Letter to My Colleagues from Lynn M. Thomson, ATHR Group Meets, Proposes Panel for New 'Turgs, Regional News: The Chicago Gang Meets Again, Member News, and Regional VP's.
LMDA Review, volume 8, issue 2

Brian Quirt, Billy Aronson, Tim Sanford, Michele Volansky, and Darrel de Chaby

Contents include: Head to Head 1997 Annual Conference, LMDA's Statement of Principle Regarding Rent Lawsuit, A Letter from Canada, My Involvement with Rent, A Dramaturg Changes Hats: Tim Sanford on Career Flexibility, Regional News, The Advocacy Caucus Needs You, Mid-Atlantic/D.C. Metropolitan Regional Report, Dramaturgy Northwest, New York Regional, Regional Vice Presidents.
LMDA Review, volume 6, issue 1

Pearl Cleage, Alfred Nordmann, and Hartmut Wickert

Contents include: A Hollering Place, A Fond Farewell, The NTTF Translation Sourcebook is Now Available, E-mail at Last, New Dramaturgs, Shamanism Vilified and Redeemed Sam Shepard's States of Shock, The Dramaturg's Voice, Announcement: American Dramaturgy, Who Will Buy, Conference Wrap-Up, Annual Meeting, and Is it Something in the Xerox Paper at ICM.
LMDA Review, volume 6, issue 2

Tim Sanford and Erin Sanders

Contents include: Comments from the Co-Presidents, New Dramaturgs, The Following are Minutes from the Annual Meeting at the Atlanta Conference in June 1994, Announcement, New E-mail Address for Dramaturgy List, Stone Mountain Show to Soften Rebel Imagery Stone Mountain, GA (AP), and The Publication of What is Dramaturgy.
LMDA Review, volume 7, issue 1

Erin Sanders and Robert Whitehead

Contents include: Changes at LMDA, Script Exchange, Minutes from LMDA Meeting June 26, 1995, 1995 Conference Rehash, Toronto Conference News, New Regional Divisions Proposed, Excerpts from Robert Whitehead's Keynote Address, and Check it out.
LMDA Review, volume 7, issue 3

Tim Sanford, Jayme Koszyn, and Erin Sanders

Contents include: Sanford and Sanders Bid Fond Farewell, Greetings from Incoming President Jayme Koszyn, 1996 Rehash, Notes from the Annual General Meeting, Regional News, New Board Members, 1996 Ballot, and Member News.
LMDA Review, volume 5, issue 3

Alfred Nordmann and Hartmut Wickert

Contents include: Shamanism Vilified and Redeemed Sam Shepard's States of Shock, The National Theater Translation Fund Awards $30,000 to Six Translators, LMDA 1994 Conference, A Call for Submissions, You're Invited: April Panels, New Dramaturg's Corner, and LMDA Thinks Ahead - A Five Year Plan.
LMDA Review, volume 4, issue 3

Dorothea Renckhoff and Kevin Duffy

Contents include: Translators: Between Copyright and the Right of the Director, 1993 LMDA Conference Set for Montreal June 5-8, Northeast Regional Meeting, Leadership at LMDA Part II, Sports Dramaturgy, LMDA and CASTA Explore Archive, and National Theater Translation Fund Announces 1992 Commissions.
LMDA Review, volume 5, issue 1

Brooks McNamara and Judy Matetzschk

Contents include: The Schubert Brothers and the "Box Office" Play, New Play Dramaturgy Takes Focus at IUPUI Youth Theatre Play-Writing Contest, 1992 LMDA Conference Information, Paperback Dramaturgy, and New Dramaturg's Corner.
LMDA Review, volume 4, issue 1

Gitta Honegger

Contents include: Abridged text of Gitta Honegger's remarks on the subject of dramaturgy to the incoming Graduate Acting, Directing, Playwrighting and Stage Management students of the Yale School of Drama, Email Announcement, A First for Dramaturgy, Production Diaries Project Update, National Theater Translation Fund Awards its First Major Round of Commissioning Grants, and New York Metropolitan New Dramaturgs Meet the Wooster Group.
LMDA Review, volume 4, issue 2

Arthur Ballet, Alexis Greene, and Nichole Gantscher

Contents include: Magicians, Charlatans & Medicine Show Con Men, Ballot Results, Biographies of Incoming Executive Officers, Attention Translators, Northeast Regional Meeting, Writers Sought, On Fighting for Theatre, LMDA Job Line Entering its Third Year, and A Political Action Primer.
LMDA Review: Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, volume 3, issue 1

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas

Contents include: New York City "New Dramaturgs" Activities; LMDA Review Returns!; University Training Programs; LMDA Receives its First NEA and NYSCA Grants; LMDA Name Change.

Note: Partial issue
LMDA Review: Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, volume 3, issue 2

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas

Contents include: Memo from the President: Leadership at LMDA; 1992 LMDA Conference Set for Seattle; December LMDA Review to be Devoted to Contract Issues; Philadelphia Conference Wrap-Up; Slate of Officers; Who Should be Running LMDA; The Script Exchange Needs You!; Attention: University-Based LMDA Members; Excerpts from the LMDA Bylaws; Leadership; Great Lakes Regional Meeting; Meeting News; LMDA Guide to Dramaturgy Training Programs; LMDA Offers Opportunity for Playwrights and Translators.