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ROUGH WORKS
A system of readings and workshops that provides artists working with the company with a schedule of development workshops, research trips, staged readings and/or residencies. ROUGH WORKS will facilitate the employment of a number of freelance directors, designers and actors as required, and allow each project to grow at its own pace supported by a development period. Supported by THE LACKENDARRAGH BURSARY.
Literary Manager
Literary Manager Karin McCully has been appointed by the company to assist in forging and maintaining relationships with playwrights across the spectrum of our artist development programme, you can reach Karin at literarymanager@roughmagic.ie
Karin brings twenty years experience as a professional Dramaturg to the role of Literary Manager, and over ten years as a theatre assessor for the Arts Council. She holds an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from The Yale School of Drama, and has taught as lecturer in Theatre History and Dramaturgy at Yale, UCLA, IADT, UCD and Trinity College, where she will be teaching Advanced Playwriting again next year. She was the first full-time resident Dramaturg at the Abbey Theatre where she subsequently became Literary Manager. Karin is currently teaching Dramaturgy at The Lir.
Karin will work with playwrights commissioned by the company for full scripts, as well as the ROUGH IDEAS artists who are exploring a potential concept for the stage.