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Professional Directions with Dramaturg Morgan Jenness

Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 4:30pm

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Film Forum
430 College Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Cornell Performing and Media Arts welcomes Dramaturg Morgan Jenness, who will be giving a talk and participate in an open Q&A discussion on Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 4:30pm in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. This event is part of the Cornell PMA Professional Directions speaker series. 

Morgan has served in dramaturgical capacities with theaters (and some films and developmental situations) across the country for over three decades. They worked in the literary office and as Associate Producer at the Public Theater, as an Associate Artistic Director at NYTW and LATC, as well as creative consultant at both the Helen Merrill and Abrams Artists agencies.

Morgan has been a guest artist with multiple educational theater programs, is currently on the faculty of Columbia, Fordham and Pace University and has been on multiple theater funding and award panels including NEA, NYSA, NEFA, the Drama Desk and Herb Alpert Award.  Morgan is also a recipient of an Obie for Long Term Support of Playwrights, the prestigious LMDA Lessing Award, the first Elsa Rael VintAge Award and a 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award, under which they are pleased to work as a Creative Consultant for Double Edge Theater as well as several projects at LaMama.

Morgan is currently Founder/Creative Director of In This Distracted Globe – a dramaturgical and management consultancy - and an artistic advisor to Taylor Mac.

The Professional Directions series brings industry experts to campus to speak about their career journeys as screenwriters, playwrights, editors, producers, directors, theatre critics, dramaturgs, and more.

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Networking

Departments

Department of Performing and Media Arts

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cascal, caspma

Website

https://pma.cornell.edu/spring-2019-e...

Contact E-Mail

aas68@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Aoise Stratford

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pma.cornell.edu

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