LMDA is proud to announce the 6th annual offering of travel grants to Early Career Dramaturgs for this summer’s conference in Denver, CO (July 7th-10th, 2011). LMDA will make cash awards up to $500 towards conference travel and housing.
Criteria for selection of an Early Career/Student Dramaturg:
· Applicant is no more than 2 years out of either a graduate or undergraduate program.
· Applicant is not an employee of a professional theatre organization (interns are welcome to apply).
· Applicant would unlikely be able to attend the LMDA conference without this assistance.
· Applicant is an LMDA member.
Submissions must be received by Monday May 9th. Notification will be given by Friday May 13th.
Applicants should answer the following questions:
1. How will attendance at the 2011 conference benefit you at this stage in your career: what do you hope to learn, gain, or come away from the conference with?
2. What questions, ideas about the field do you have that you would like to introduce, share, or have answered from connections made at the conference?
3. Why do you see yourself well suited for this conference in particular? What do you feel you can contribute to the group, as well as what you hope to learn?
Please send you application via e-mail to Julie Felise Dubiner at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) <mailto:julied@osfashland.org> .
Travel, housing arrangements, and conference registration must be made by the dramaturgs themselves. For more information and to download the conference brochure, please visit http://www.lmda.org <http://www.lmda.org> .
The money for this initiative was raised through efforts of the ECDs and LMDA through the 5th Annual Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Memorial Birthday Bake Sale and generous donations. We are always happy to accept more donations to fund a larger number of recipients. Contributions to this fund or other ECD and LMDA initiatives can be made online at http://www.lmda.org <http://www.lmda.org> or sent to LMDA, P.O Box 36, 20985, P.A.C.C., New York, NY 10129.