Dramaturgy

Featuring 5 of New York’s Most Savvy Script Analysts

Jack Viertel
Artistic Director of the City Center Encores!
Creative Director of Jujamcyn Theatres
Co-producer and co-conceiver of SMOKEY JOE'S CAFÉ
Dramaturg of HAIRSPRAY
Former Dramaturg of the Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles and Chief Theater Critic
and Arts Editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.

Robyn Goodman
Producer

AVENUE Q
Tony Award for Best Musical of 2004

IN THE HEIGHTS
Tony Award for Best Musical of 2008.

Co- founder and Artistic Director of the Second Stage Theatre for 13 years
Supervising Producer of ABC's One Life To Live for 4 years
Artistic Consultant to The Roundabout Theatre Company.
Producer of the Counts Media/Blue Man Group multimedia tour bus/vaudeville
which will launch in the Spring of 09.

Leigh Silverman
Has directed shows for Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional, and the West End.

Some Credits Include:
Lisa Kron's Well, From Up Here (world premiere, Manhattan Theatre Club), Beebo Brinker Chronicles, David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face (world premiere, co-production Center Theatre Group/The Public Theater), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Second Stage Theatre); Tanya Barfield's Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons and Seattle Repertory Theater); The Five Lesbian Brothers' Oedipus At Palm Springs (world premiere, New York Theatre Workshop); Eve Ensler's The Treatment (world premiere, The Culture Project); Neena Beber's Jump/Cut (world premiere, Woolly Mammoth Theatre/Theater J and Women's Project); West End: Wit (Vaudeville Theatre), Bad Dates (Cleveland Playhouse) and How I Learned to Drive (Actors Theatre of Louisville).

Upcoming projects include the musical Coraline with music by Stephin Merritt and book by David Greenspan at MCC.

Jerry Patch
Director of Artistic Development at Manhattan Theatre Club
Past Credits Include:
Co-Artistic Director of San Diego’s The Old Globe
Dramaturg and a member of the long-standing artistic team at Southern California's Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory (SCR), where he coordinated the development of 150 new plays, including two Pulitzer Prize winners and numerous other Pulitzer finalists.
Project director of SCR's Pacific Playwrights Festival
Artistic Director of The Sundance Theatre Program

Joyce Ketay
Founder of the Joyce Ketay Agency
Literary Agent at The Gersh Agency
Client list includes such writers as Tony Kushner, Neil LaBute, David Rabe, Moises Kaufman, Richard Dresser, Eric Overmyer, Michael Weller and directors such as Jo Bonney, Diane Paulus and Tony Taccone.

Gained a reputation for representing an eclectic mix of projects such as Kushner’s ANGELS IN AMERICA (Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize) and HOMEBODY/KABUL; Kaufman’s THE LARAMIE PROJECT and LaBute’s BASH, THE SHAPE OF THINGS and FAT PIG.