The Executive Comittee 2010-2012
The Dramaturgs’ Network is a run by its members. As a network of professionals it has no paid staff but depends solely on its members’ active contribution to fulfilling its aims. To oversee the activities, administration and how funds are managed an Executive Committee, consisting of a minimum of four members, is elected for two years.
The Executive Committee 2010 – 2012
Katalin Trencsényi
President
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Mission statement:
When we founded the Dramaturgs’ Network 10 years ago, we wanted to connect dramaturgs in the UK, and offer them support. Although a small organisation, we can be proud of our achievements and the fact that in many ways we have contributed to the acknowledgement and better understanding of dramaturgy. Now, ten years later, I feel the network’s role is to be a hub for those who want to practice dramaturgy. In order to achieve this I’d like to work together with other organisations nationally and internationally. As a President of the Dramaturgs’ Network I visualise a more dynamic organisation that is inclusive, highly professional yet friendly.
Hanna Slättne
Vice President
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Mission statement:
Having been involved in the dramaturgs’ network since the beginning, my focus as part of the executive committee will be to improve the means for communication between members, support members activities across the UK and Ireland and to facilitate the development of a Best Practice document for working as a dramaturg across different types of processes and disciplines.
Eva Daníčková
Early Career Dramaturgs’ Representative
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Mission statement:
My objective is to support the work and development of early career dramaturgs in the UK through a dialogue between the industry, academic institutions and the Dramaturgs’ Network. I aim to help create a platform for collaboration between theatre makers with dramaturgy as an integral part of the creative process. An established DN member, I proudly promote and represent its work in the UK and beyond.
Amanda Fromell
Secretary
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Mission statement:
As Executive Secretary I work towards the expansion and development of the Dramaturgs’ Network by offering administrative support to the Executive Committee members. I also wish to supply the network with creative ideas aimed towards further establishing the important creative role of the dramaturg in the UK and internationally.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Biographies
KATALIN TRENCSÉNYI is a London-based dramaturg. She studied at the Academy of Drama and Film, Budapest and did her traineeship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. As a freelance dramaturg she has worked for the National Theatre (Channels project and various literal translations), read scripts for the Royal Court Theatre, ran the Kings Cross Award for New Writing, and worked as a production dramaturg or dance dramaturg for many other independent companies.
As well as writing theatre reviews regularly, Katalin has one book on theatre and two plays published. Currently she is writing a book on dramaturgical practices, a project that has grown out of her PhD in dramaturgy and received a Dramaturg Driven Grant in 2010 from the Literary Mangers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.
Katalin is a member of the Dramaturgs’ Guild (Hungary), Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (US and Canada), and the Translation, Adaptation, Dramaturgy Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research.
HANNA SLATTNE is the Dramaturg at Tinderbox Theatre Company, Belfast where she runs the dramaturgy strand of the company’s activities: working with writers under commission, production dramaturgy, writer’s development programmes such as The Writers Lab and Fireworks; Tinderbox’s annual Young Writers Programme.
She is working with many of the leading theatre companies in Northern Ireland as part of the Joint Sectoral Dramaturgy Project. She is dramaturg at the Space Programme an annual interdisciplinary arts residency run by the Performance Corporation. Other recent productions include The Lady of Burma by Richard Shannon (The Old Vic) and Julie by Zinnie Harris (National Theatre of Scotland), The Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo (Borderline Theatre Company)
Hanna is a co-founding member of The Dramaturgs’ Network and is closely involved in the development and exploration of dramaturgical practice in the UK and Ireland. She is on the board of Assault Events Dance Company.
EVA DANÍCKOVÁ began her theatre career thirteen years ago in Brno, Czech Republic. After relocating to the UK, she completed Theatre Studies at London Metropolitan University and MA Advanced Theatre Practice (Dramaturgy strand) at The Central School of Speech and Drama. She works as a writer and production dramaturg but she also specialises in play translations and dramaturgy of text. Eva collaborated with Sam Walters at the Orange Tree Theatre during rehearsals of Václav Havel’s latest play “Leaving” and the subsequent “Havel Season”. As a freelance play translator, Eva has worked for the Royal Court Theatre International Residency 2010, where she translated a play by Marek Horošcák from Czech to English. Earlier this year Eva wrote the libretto for the contemporary opera The Moonflower, produced by Boii Theatre for Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival (Riverside Studios) in August 2011. Her TV credits include “BBC East Enders” (specialist dramaturgy of hospital scenes and scenography). Eva established Boii Theatre in 2010, opening with translations of A. Goldflam’s plays. Boii is now devising its own work, as well as continuing work with Czech plays in translation.
AMANDA FROMELL is a dramaturg, writer and director with a background in theatre and literature from Sweden, Chile and the UK. Her love of dramaturgy started with an internship at the Literary Department of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatre. Since then she has worked as a freelance dramaturg for the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden (Dramaten), the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Tinderbox Theatre. She has also written, devised and directed a series of successful shows at Rosenlund Theatre in Stockholm and she is currently working with Chorus Theatre as assistant director devising a new community play and writing on her first novel.
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