lct
Literary Manager/Dramaturg
New York, New York · Full-time
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About the role
- LCT's mission is to bring exceptional theater to life.
- It is one of 11 autonomous constituents of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
- Each year, the three theaters that make up LCT welcome nearly 400,000 audience members to its home on the Lincoln Center campus.
Responsibilities
- Solicits, reads, evaluates, reports on and responds to submissions of new work. Helps maintain a submission log and shared tracking system, as well as communications with agents and writers
- Partner in curating new commissions and in developing a plan for fostering relationships with commissioned writers, including arranging workshops.
- Helps maintain a submission log and shared tracking system, as well as communications with agents and writers
Requirements
- At least five years of experience with the new play development process, either as an artist, producer, literary manager, or dramaturg.
- Experience with both new play development and reinvestigation of classic texts.
- Ability to work collaboratively across all departments, incorporating LCT's values in every face t of the process
- Broad knowledge of live performance of all mediums and genres, theater history, American playwrights, and the contemporary theater landscape, both in New York City and regionally
- Ability to communicate with equal clarity to artists, crew people, administration, and the many other colleagues making work at LCT.
- Cover Letter In your cover letter, please share which plays produced by Lincoln Center Theater you have found particularly meaningful and why.
Compensation
- This is a full-time, exempt, salaried position with a n annual salary range of $ 12 5,000-$13 5,000. Lincoln Center Theater provides comprehensive benefits including: Paid Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, 403(b) and Employer Match, and Paid Time Off.
- Reconceive and lead the annual Director's Lab
Benefits
- We would also appreciate learning about your approach to collaborating with playwrights throughout the development process.
- Oversee new script submissions, read and provide coverage, maintain a log of submitted work, and meet with playwrights.
- A ctively engage and refine ongoing long-term artistic vision for Lincoln Center Theater along with the Artistic Leadership Team and the Producing Team.
Company info
- to make the magic of theatre more palpable, empowering visionary artists and extending the invitation for the community to join in celebrating the power of live performance.
- This upcoming season embodies this mission-driven work and is the second under the leadership of Kewsong Lee Artistic Director Lear deBessonet, Managing Director Mike Schleifer, Executive Producer Barlett Sher, Stacey and Eric Mindich Producer Nicole Kastrinos, and LCT3 Artistic Director and Producer Maria Manuela Goyanes.
- Founded in 1985 by Board Chair Hon.
- Lindsay, Executive Producer Bernard Gersten and Director Gregory Mosher, and led for 33 years by André Bishop, LCT is one of the leading nonprofit theaters in the country, producing an annual season of plays and musicals that have been seen by millions around the globe.
- Over the last 40 years, LCT and its outstanding productions have received many of the highest accolades, including 91 Tony Awards, 181 Drama Desk Awards, 84 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 36 Obies, 13 NY Drama Critics Circle Awards, and one Pulitzer Prize, as well as two finalists.
- LCT is dedicated to fostering a theater representative of all of the populations we serve.
- We are proactively committed to better serve artists, staff, crews, audiences, and broader communities through our organization's values.
- We welcome applicants who are in alignment with our organization's values of empathy, dignity, and care.
- Please submit your resume, cover letter, and writing materials described below as part of your application:
Visa & Work Authorization
- applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, natio nal origin, citizenship, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, affectional preference, gender identity or ex
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