The School of Communication and Arts is pleased to announce that the 2019 UQ Drama Creative Fellow will be celebrated dramaturg Katalin Trencsényi. Katalin is the author of Dramaturgy in the Making: A User’s Guide for Theatre Practitioners (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015), editor of Bandoneon: Working with Pina Bausch (Oberon Books, 2016), and co-editor with Bernadette Cochrane of New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014). Since 2018 she has been working as editor of the dramaturgy section of the award-wining global theatre portal, TheTheatreTimes.com
As a London-based freelance dramaturg, Katalin has worked with the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, Deafinitely Theatre, Corali Dance Company, and Company of Angels, among others. As a theatre-maker Katalin has worked and taught internationally: in Belgium (DANSPUNT – Out of the Toolbox Festival), Canada (Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal), Poland (Festival of New Dramaturgies), Russia (Diaghilev Festival), and the US (LMDA dance dramaturgy workshop at Gibney Dance).
Katalin is co-founder of the Dramaturgs’ Network (d’n), has worked on its various committees, and from 2010 to 2012 served as its President. Currently she is working as a member of the d’n Advisory Board.
atalin is proud to have won the Bly Fellowship in 2014, awarded by the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and is looking forward to present her research on dance dramaturgy at the Bly Alumni’s celebratory gathering at the Kennedy Center in 2019.
During her fellowship, Katalin will be collaborating with staff and students at the University of Queensland, and also at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. The University of Queensland events include:
Playwriting Masterclass
Tuesday, 12th March 2019
Geoffrey Rush Drama Studio, 9.00am – 4.00pm
Lecture:
Wednesday, 20th March 2019
Hawken Engineering Building 9.00am – 10.00pm
Public Lecture
Wednesday, 20th March 2019
Terrace Room, Sir Llew Edwards Building, 6.00pm – 7.00pm
Please RSVP to this event by 15 March 2019
Research Roundtable on New Dramaturgy
Friday, 22nd March 2019
Terrace Room, Sir Llew Edwards Building, 4.45pm – 6.00pm
Please RSVP to this event by 20 March 2019
Production Dramaturgy Masterclass
Saturday, 23th March 2019
The Geoffrey Rush Drama Studio, 10.00am – 4.00pm
Please RSVP to these events by contacting communication-arts@uq.edu.au