Exploring Dramaturgies: Testimony and Personal Stories

In the first event of this series, Louise Stephens will discuss possible dramaturgical methods when responding to lived experience or testimony, drawing from production examples. After this discussion, there will be a Q&A and a chance to exchange practical experiences.   

Louise is the Creative Director of Playwrights' Studio, Scotland. She was the Dramaturg for the Abbey Theatre from 2018 to 2021. Her production dramaturgy for the Abbey included Walls and Windows by Rosaleen McDonagh; One Good Turn by Una McKevitt; Home: Part 1, and Fourteen Voices from the Bloodied Field (with fourteen writers). Over the past fifteen years, she has worked in the literary departments of the Royal Court and Traverse Theatres, and as an independent dramaturg with writers and companies throughout the UK and Ireland.