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Anne Cattaneo, Dramaturg of Lincoln Center Theater and the creator and head of the Lincoln Center Theater
Directors' Lab.
Anne Cattaneo is the Dramaturg of Lincoln Center Theater and the creator and head of the Lincoln Center
Theater Directors' Lab. A three-term past president of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas,
she is the recipient of LMDA's first Lessing Award for lifetime achievement of dramaturgy. She has worked
widely as a dramaturg on classical plays with directors such as James Lapine, Robert Wilson, Adrian Hall,
Jack O’Brien, Robert Falls, Mark Lamos, and JoAnne Akalaitis. As the director of the Playworks Program at
the Phoenix Theater during the late 1970's, she commissioned and developed plays by Wendy Wasserstein
(Isn't It Romantic), Mustapha Matura (Meetings), and Christopher Durang (Beyond Therapy).
For the Acting Company, she created two projects: Orchards (published by Knopf and Broadway Play
Publishing) which presented seven Chekhov stories adapted for the stage by Maria Irene Fornes, Spalding
Gray, John Guare, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein, Michael Weller, and Samm-Art Williams; and Love's Fire
(published by William Morrow), responses to Shakespeare sonnets by Eric Bogosian, William Finn, John Guare,
Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange, and Wendy Wasserstein. Her own translations of 20th-century
German playwrights include Brecht's Galileo (Goodman Theater 1986 starring Brian Dennehy) and Botho
Strauss' Big and Little (Phoenix production starring Barbara Barrie, published by Farrar, Straus and
Giroux). She is currently on the faculty at Juilliard.
Jennie Greer, Director of Institutional Advancement, New Dramatists
Jennie Greer recently returned to New Dramatists as Director of Institutional Advancement. She had previously
served as Director of Development at New Dramatists for three and a half years. Greer worked most recently at
Signature Theatre Company as the Director of Theatre Advancement. In that position, she oversaw development
and marketing strategies, as well as the implementation of a new branding and communications campaign. She
has also served as the Executive Director for The New Harmony Project, an Indiana-based organization dedicated
to developing new works for theatre, film, and television. She is a proud graduate of the University of
Evansville Department of Theatre and the MFA Performing Arts Management program at Brooklyn College.
Linda Herring, Executive Director, Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Linda Herring is the Executive Director of Tribeca Performing Arts Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community
College. She received her MFA in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College and a second MFA in Dramaturgy.
She was formerly the Managing Director of New Federal Theater for over 11 years. She was the recipient of a
grant from the Theater Development Fund for her first commercial production, "Stories About the Old Days," by
Bill Harris and starring Abbey Lincoln. The following year she produced the musical "Easy," conceived by Jeree
Palmer Wade, music composed by Frank Owens, directed by Adam Wade. The project was presented at the AUDELCO
Black Theater Festival. Herring has served as General Manager for several productions: "God's Trombones by
James Weldon Johnson starring Theresa Merritt, Ossie Davis, Al Freeman, Jr., Tramaine Hawkins, and S. Epatha
Merkerson at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia; "Zora Neale Hurston" by Laurence Holder and directed by Wynn
Handman at the National Black Arts Festival; "Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil," by Bill Harris at the North
Carolina Black Theater Festival. Herring is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and there she received her
training and performance experience in the arts. As an undergraduate, she joined the Pittsburgh Black Theater
and Dance Ensemble and later taught dance to children and adults through the company's training school, The
Afro-American Dance Center. Her responsibilities expanded and included choreography, where she contributed to
five seasons of the company's annual dance concerts. She is a board member of the Alliance of Resident
Theaters/NewYork.
Morgan Jenness, Abrams Artists Agency; Board Member, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.
Morgan Jenness joined the Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Play Development Department as a script
reader and intern in 1979. By the time she left, in 1988, she was Literary Manager. Between 1988-1990, she was
Associate Artistic Director at New York Theatre Workshop. In 1990, she moved to the Los Angeles Theater Center
as Associate Director. A freelance dramaturg between 1991-93, her projects included Angels in America on
Broadway. She returned to the Public in 1993, first as Director of Play Development and then in 1995 as
Associate Producer. Her many activities included supervision of the LuEsther Lab and the Play Development
Department, production supervision and dramaturgy, participation in season and administrative planning,
producing New Work Now! A partial list of artists she has collaborated with includes: Reza Abdoh, John Belluso,
Anne Bogart, Eric Bogosian, Joe Chaikin, Connie Congdon, Migdalia Cruz, Christopher Durang, David Esbjornson,
Danny Hoch, Naomi Iizuka, Harry Kondolean, Tina Landau, Craig Lucas, Eduardo Machodo, Ruth Margraff, Michael
Mayer, Jose Rivera, Anna Deavere Smith, Naomi Wallace, George C Wolfe. In 1998, she joined Helen Merrill Ltd
as Creative Director. She is currently in the literary division at Abrams Artists Agency.
Joel Ruark, Executive Director, New Dramatists
Joel Ruark, Executive Director, New Dramatists, was Managing Director of New Dramatists from 1989 to 1992,
and returned to the company in 2000 following seven years of management in the theatre and nonprofit sectors.
Ruark served as Managing Director of Wind Dancer Theatre in New York, a division of Wind Dancer Productions.
Prior to Wind Dancer, he served as CFO for Praxis Housing Initiatives, a nonprofit housing development
agency serving the homeless and people with AIDS. Ruark previously held positions as Development Director
of the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ, General Manager of the Lambs Theatre in New York City,
and Literary Manager of the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. He has worked in a variety of positions
at professional companies including the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, the Philadelphia Theatre Company,
the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the Philadelphia Festival Theatre. A graduate of Ohio University, Ruark began
his theatrical career as a literary management intern at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
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