MAXINE KERN
Her plays include, “Emily’s Will” & “Totems” based on the life of Canadian artist Emily Carr; workshopped by The Tempest Ladies/ Wild Banchees, “Dostoyevsky”, a play about two sisters facing the magical unknown on a starry night, presented by Cosmic Orchid @ The Theater for the New City, and “Red Emma” based on the life of social activist Emma Goldman, presented by Parity Productions. Red Emma received an Award for “Outstanding Playwriting” in the Global Connections Festivity.
Maxine Kern (Dramaturg) Most recently the Resident Dramaturg for The Negro Ensemble Theater Company and DiverseCity Theater Company. Her dramaturgy includes Final Analysis by Ortho Eskins @ Signature Theatre, Playing with Fire, by August Strindberg adapted by Leslie Lee, The Human Rights for Women of Color Festival @Women of Color Theatre Company, As it is in Heaven by Arlene Hutton @3 Graces Theatre, Savannah Black and Blue by Raymond Jones @ NEC, The Book of Lambert by Leslie Lee @La MaMa Theatre, For the Time Being by W.H.Auden, Affinity Theatre, @CSC & Symphony Space, The Equality Theater Playwright’s Festival DiverseCity Theatre @ Theatre Row, Harold Clurman Theatre, Mina by Leslie Lee @ La MaMa Theatre in NYC,.The M Odessey by PJ Gibson @ The Going to the River Festival EST, The Equality Playwright Festival: Fourplays, DCT@ The Harold Clurman, Theatre Row: Sickle by Sophia Romma, The Unlucky Man in the Yellow Cap by J.R. Pick @The Immigrant Theatre Project, Marsh Light by Marthe Gold @ the Four C’s Cape Cod Community College, Three Seconds in the Key by Deb Margolin @ The Baruch Performing Arts Center, Twained by Joseph Ritz@ The Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, NY, Little Pitfalls by Marketa Blahova @ The Immigrant Theatre Project, The Last One Hundred Years/Joanna Baillie @ The Juggernaut Theater, Dark Paradise by Keith Glover @ The Cincinnati Playhouse.
She has been a Symposium Speaker for The Seventeenth Annual Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre, in Cairo Egypt, and Dramaturg for The Heart of Prague at the Prague Quadrennial 2003, Czech Republic.
As part of the artistic staff of several theaters she was Artistic Director for Company One Theater in Hartford CT, Literary Manager for New Georges Theater, New York City, Literary manager/Dramaturg, The George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Producing Associate for McCarter Theater Princeton, New Jersey, Dramaturg@ The New York Shakespeare Public Theater, NYC and Resident Dramaturg @New Dramatists, Inc., NYC.
She has served on the executive board of LMDA, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, on the boards of The Judith Shakespeare Theatre Company and The League of Professional Theatre Women. She was recently the Co-President of The League of Professional Theatre Women. As a member of LPTW she has been Co Chair of Julia’s Reading Room, The International Committee, The LPTW International Award.
She has been a lecturer at SUNY StonyBrook, and Columbia University.
Her plays include, “Emily’s Will” & “Totems” based on the life of Canadian artist Emily Carr; workshopped by The Tempest Ladies/ Wild Banchees, “Dostoyevsky”, a play about two sisters facing the magical unknown on a starry night, presented by Cosmic Orchid @ The Theater for the New City, and “Red Emma” based on the life of social activist Emma Goldman, presented by Parity Productions. Red Emma received an Award for “Outstanding Playwriting” in the Global Connections Festivity.
Maxine Kern (Dramaturg) Most recently the Resident Dramaturg for The Negro Ensemble Theater Company and DiverseCity Theater Company. Her dramaturgy includes Final Analysis by Ortho Eskins @ Signature Theatre, Playing with Fire, by August Strindberg adapted by Leslie Lee, The Human Rights for Women of Color Festival @Women of Color Theatre Company, As it is in Heaven by Arlene Hutton @3 Graces Theatre, Savannah Black and Blue by Raymond Jones @ NEC, The Book of Lambert by Leslie Lee @La MaMa Theatre, For the Time Being by W.H.Auden, Affinity Theatre, @CSC & Symphony Space, The Equality Theater Playwright’s Festival DiverseCity Theatre @ Theatre Row, Harold Clurman Theatre, Mina by Leslie Lee @ La MaMa Theatre in NYC,.The M Odessey by PJ Gibson @ The Going to the River Festival EST, The Equality Playwright Festival: Fourplays, DCT@ The Harold Clurman, Theatre Row: Sickle by Sophia Romma, The Unlucky Man in the Yellow Cap by J.R. Pick @The Immigrant Theatre Project, Marsh Light by Marthe Gold @ the Four C’s Cape Cod Community College, Three Seconds in the Key by Deb Margolin @ The Baruch Performing Arts Center, Twained by Joseph Ritz@ The Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, NY, Little Pitfalls by Marketa Blahova @ The Immigrant Theatre Project, The Last One Hundred Years/Joanna Baillie @ The Juggernaut Theater, Dark Paradise by Keith Glover @ The Cincinnati Playhouse.
She has been a Symposium Speaker for The Seventeenth Annual Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre, in Cairo Egypt, and Dramaturg for The Heart of Prague at the Prague Quadrennial 2003, Czech Republic.
As part of the artistic staff of several theaters she was Artistic Director for Company One Theater in Hartford CT, Literary Manager for New Georges Theater, New York City, Literary manager/Dramaturg, The George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Producing Associate for McCarter Theater Princeton, New Jersey, Dramaturg@ The New York Shakespeare Public Theater, NYC and Resident Dramaturg @New Dramatists, Inc., NYC.
She has served on the executive board of LMDA, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, on the boards of The Judith Shakespeare Theatre Company and The League of Professional Theatre Women. She was recently the Co-President of The League of Professional Theatre Women. As a member of LPTW she has been Co Chair of Julia’s Reading Room, The International Committee, The LPTW International Award.
She has been a lecturer at SUNY StonyBrook, and Columbia University.
