House, Divided
 La Tempestad
 The Ballad of John Wesley Reed
 Girl Science
 The Allure of Oriental Wisdom
 Memorial Day (formerly Varia)
 Pride of the Lion
 The Dostoyevsky Man


 Monica for Chanukah
 Angie and Arnie Sanguine
 Edward and Ellie Supine
 The Lion Eats His Lunch
 The Lion in His Lair
 The Lion Leaves His Mark
 Prayers


 But Who's Counting?
 Emma Goldman Imagines the Millenium


 Just Before the War Between the Plates
 I Can Handle That


 Talking  with Lee Blessing

...with Tom Coash
...with Mary Fengar Gail
...with Richard Kalinowsky
...with Jamie Pachino
...with David Rambo
...with Jason Sherman
...with Naomi Wallace
...with Tom Gibbons
...with Dick Goldberg

My first theatre job was as a "dramaturg and writer of additional material" on the American Music Theatre Festival/Philadelphia Theatre Company world premiere production of STAUF by Michael Sahl and Eric Saltzman in October, 1987. Between then and 1998, when I started working at InterAct Theatre Company as Literary Manager and Dramaturg, I did a few free-lance dramaturgical jobs for Philadelphia Theatre Company, including pre-production research for a production that was eventually abandoned of In the Belly of the Beast.

In 1998, when I started working for InterAct, I started working on new plays, and much of my production dramaturgy has been on new plays, meaning I have worked with the playwright and director to help prepare the play for stage. The exact nature of the work of the professional dramaturg is routinely debated by members of LMDA (Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas) and there is a growing list somewhere, probably on the LMDA web site, of all of the suggestions for the official job description. As researcher, responder, re-write author, critic, comforter, antagonist, sympathizer, supporter, opponent, wise guy know it all, dumb guy know nothing, and just plain and informed kibitzer, I have involved myself in various ways in the creation of new plays by Tom Gibbons, David Robson, Seth Rozin, Mary Fengar Gail, Arden Kass, Joseph Sorrentino, Tom Reing, and Dick Goldberg among others, and in the production of plays by David Rambo, Jason Sherman, Russell Lees, Lee Blessing, Jamie Pachino and others.

In 2005 and 2006, I worked as a dramaturg at PlayPenn. Also in 2004-2005, I was the dramaturg on Planetary Enzyme Blues, a show developed by New Paradise Laboratories and created by Whit MacLaughlin. A book I wrote about this experience called A Year in Paradise: The Creation of Planetary Enzyme Blues was honorably mentioned for the Eliot Hays Award for Dramaturgy in 2006.

In the Spring of 2007 I taught a graduate/undergraduate course in Dramaturgy at Arcadia University.

One tangible outcome of the dramaturgical involvement with these writers is interviews with them published in InterAct's quarterly newsletter InterActivity.

Lee Blessing
Jason Sherman
Mary Fengar Gail
David Rambo
Richard Kalinosky
Jamie Pachino
Tom Coash

Some other dramaturgical articles are here as well.

Dramaturgy in a Time of Terror
What is Political Theatre?
The traveling Dramaturg: What is my job?