Dramaturgy

Jack’s dramaturgy practice includes:

• Curation
• Production Dramaturgy
• New Play and Playwright Development
• Translation Dramaturgy
• Physical Theatre and Creation Dramaturgy
• Script Editing
• Play Reading
• International Playwright and Company Outreach

He has sat on the selection committees for several awards including The Gordon Armstrong Playwright Rent Award (Vancouver, CAN) and Theatre503’s New Playwrighting Award (London, UK).

Dramaturge & Curator, Theatre503 (London, UK)

• Dramaturge, Theatre503 & British Equity New Play Development Workshops
• Curator and Director, New Playwright Initiative Rapid Write Response
• Theatre503’s New Playwriting Award Selection Committee. Theatre503 Literary Department

International Representative, Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal (Montreal, CAN)

• Facilitator of International Outreach including connecting The Royal Court, The Royal National Theatre (England), The Lyric (Northern Ireland), The Abbey (Ireland), The Text Foundry (Netherlands)

Ongoing Dramatugy & Translation Dramaturgy
with international playwrights and their translators bringing their works to English Language includes artists from Iran, China, Europe, and South America.

Selected Production Dramaturg:
Macbeth: nach Shakespeare by Heiner Muller, translated by Carl Weber
Theatre Conspiracy/ Gas Heart (Vancouver, CAN)
English Language Premiere

Selected Creation/ Devising Dramaturgy:
The Elephant and the Goldfish, youandi theatre with Ming Hudson and Kevin Krugler (London, UK)
Storm Cloud by Guy Burges (London, UK)

Selected Text Development Workshops:
Intrusion by Veronique West, Screaming Locomotive: Emerging Playwrights
Sanctuaire by Lucia Frangione, Screaming Locomotive
Two Part Invention by Dorothy Dittrich, Screaming Locomotive
Unstuck by Evan Tsitsias,  Foundry Theatre
Galatea by Lawrence Aronovitch, Screaming Weenie: Clean Sheets

Selected Supportive Dramaturgy:
Chose and Chose Wisely by Jeff Culbert
The Folio by Kim Renolds
Richard 3 by Thys Heydenrych
Shine: A Burlesque Musical,
Book by Sam Dulmage & Cass King and Lyrics and Music by John Woods and Cass King
Aficionados by  Allyson McGrane, Screaming Locomotive
The Busker and the Barista: A Rock Opera, Text and Lyrics by Barry “Jack” Jenkins
with music Graeme Peters, Screaming Locomotive

Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, Associate Dramaturge (Montreal,CAN):
Sal Capone by Omari Newton (w Urban Ink & Black Theatre Workshop)
Four Minutes if You Bleed by Alexandria Haber & Ned Cox
Concordia 10 Minute Plays by Various
Strange Land by Alexis Diamond
Members of the Band by Lionel Siegel

PWM Translation Workshops:
THE POSTER by Philippe Ducros, translated by Shelley Tepperman
The Carrousel by Jennifer Tremblay, translated by Shelley Tepperman

PWM Residencies:
Residency: Tracey Power and James Macdonald, Ordinary Genius
Residency: Amiel Gladstone, Works in Development