Liz Engelman

McCarter Theater
lengelman@mccarter.org

Liz Engelman is serving as project associate on the Center’s on-going research examining Innovation in American Theatre: New Plays by New Playwrights. She also serves as the Literary Director of the McCarter Theatre. Most recently, she was the Director of New Play Development at A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, Washington. She has also served as Literary Manager/Dramaturg at Seattle’s Intiman Theatre, and as Assistant Literary Manager at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She has also worked on the development of new plays at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, ASK Theatre Projects, and New York Theatre Workshop. Liz has been a guest at Washington University in St. Louis, the University if Puget Sound, and Cornish College of the Arts, and has taught playwriting at Freehold Studio Theatre Lab. She studied dramaturgy and new play development at Brown and Columbia universities, where she received her BA and MFA in theatre and dramaturgy, respectively. Liz is the co-editor with Michael Bigelow Dixon of three collections of plays. Liz is a Vice President of LMDA, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.