Amrita Ramanan

Amrita Ramanan

(she/her/hers)

Production Dramaturg, Poor Yella Rednecks*, Confederates*, Everything That Never Happened*. Co-Production Dramaturg, Confederates*

(*originally scheduled for 2020)

In four seasons at OSF: Production Dramaturg, As You Like It; Cambodian Rock Band; Macbeth; Alice in Wonderland; Oklahoma!; Co-Production Dramaturg, Henry V; Snow in Midsummer; co-dramaturg, Henry IV, Part One; Henry IV, Part Two

Other theatres: In five seasons at Arena Stage, served as the Production Dramaturg for Mary T. & Lizzy K., My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Trouble in Mind, Ruined, Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies and Crowns; developed the Public Arena—an engagement initiative aimed at creating and maintaining a dynamic exchange between artists, audiences and staff about the art onstage; line-produced the playwright residencies for Lisa Kron and Charles Randolph-Wright; produced Arena Stage’s Downstairs New Play Reading Series; Associate Producer and Resident Dramaturg at Double Edge Theatre (2013–2016); dramaturg for Cymbeline, Macbeth,and The Taming of the Shrew at the Great River Shakespeare Festival (2006–2008).

Other credits: Board member for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America (LMDA) and Network of Ensemble Theaters; National Advisor for Art of the Rural and the Rural Policy Research Institute’s Next Generation Initiative.

Education: BFA Theater History & Dramaturgy, University of Arizona.