It seems that I am an in-demand dramaturg. Woo! Now I just have to fit it into my winter schedule. In addition to co-dramaturging with the other MA on Spring Awakening, a 1st year director asked me to be her dramaturg on How I Learned to Drive.
Before I even had a chance to voice my concerns, I was presented with an interesting option. Undergrads have been clamoring for dramaturgy projects that the MAs get first crack at. My mentor is trying to balance the needs of graduates and undergraduates. So he has paired me up with an undergrad assistant for one of the shows I will be working on.
This gives her a chance to see what is involved in dramaturgy without being thrown off the deep end. It gives me someone to do the scutt work of research. I will communicate with the director and find dramaturgical details to be explored. Hee!
My mentor specifically asked me to take on this undergrad more as a project in itself. My assistant is an intelligent, if socially-awkward junior. And apparently I will be good at setting boundaries and mediating some of the awkwardness. And learn the fine art of delegation. Which is something I am already working on in my 500 project, where I seem to be de facto artistic director of our hypothetical theatre company.
I tend to work very well one-on-one. And this is an exciting prospect both in the sense of having a minion, as well as a teaching project.
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