Lenora Inez Brown

RESIDENT DRAMATURG

Lenora Inez Brown is the author of The Art of Active Dramaturgy: Transforming Critical Thinking into Dramatic Action, published by Focus Publishing. As an arts and education consultant she has worked with Chicago’s Lyric Opera and edited the Playwright Discovery Guide for VSA: The International Organization on Arts and Disability. She is also the former Head of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at The Theatre School, DePaul University. She has served as a dramaturg at numerous new-play workshops and festivals including The Sundance Theatre Labs 2000 and 2001, South Coast Repertory’s The Pacific Playwright Festival, The Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Series, The Bonderman Festival at Indiana Repertory Theatre, and New Visions/New Voices at The Kennedy Center. She helped initiate Madison Rep’s new play festival, which included the premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice. She was the dramaturg for the 1999 Tony® nominated musical It Ain’t Nothing But the Blues. She holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama.