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Photo credit: Pavel Bogolepov Written by Katalin Trencsényi | Dramaturgs' Network co-founder and member of the d'n Council When sitting in Hanna Slättne’s kitchen in London’s Tooting Bec in 2001, two early-career dramaturgs arriving in the UK from Europe in the 1990s, we did not dream that the organisation we were about to establish would still be running a generation later. At that time, what we longed for was to bring together people who identify as dramaturgs and find pee

Photo provided by La Repubblica In light of the recent news of Tom Stoppard’s passing at the age of eighty-eight, the Dramaturgs’ Network wishes to express our gratitude to the late playwright for his generous support over the years, share some words of remembrance with our membership, and offer condolences to his family and relatives.  By now, the impressive range, breadth, and depth of Stoppard’s writing career have been extensively memorialised. Many moving  and insightful

Excerpt from LMDA Presents: Dramaturging the Phoenix – a Special Edition, presented at our d'n20 symposium in November 2021.

HANNA SLÄTTNE: Today we are celebrating the Dramaturgs’ Network’s 20th birthday! The fact that we are still here, is a miracle and a...

Dramaturg is a funny word. I had been working in theatre for a long time before I understood what it meant and I'd been doing this thing...

This panel presented how some Asian artists and dramaturgs are responding to new realities in their social, cultural & aesthetic communities

The Dramaturgs' Network is very proud to be one of the driving forces behind this unique international collaboration. The project was...

A new initiative from the Dramaturgs' Network,, The International Dramaturgy Lab, is in now open for applications and proposals. It will...

When the UK (following other countries) went into lockdown and our normal life came to a halt, we felt it would be important to document the

This whole experience has been pretty biblical, to be honest. Maybe there’s a glimmer of similarity between the Invisible Diaries and the Bi