Meet Our Mentors (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
Elizabeth Bojsza
She holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Stony Brook University and has been teaching here for over 14 years. She been the co-teacher of Prevention Through the Arts since 2004.
After 13 years in the Department of Theatre Arts, Elizabeth joined the faculty of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University last year. As a member of the creative team of Alda center improvisation instructors, Elizabeth is working to innovate and build on the strong foundational curricula there. She also teaches graduate and undergraduate classes and leads workshops around the country. She finds the skills of analysis and feedback she honed as a theatre artist directly applicable to facilitating experiential learning for scientists and medical professionals.
Recent projects include co-writing a textbook for an Introduction to Theatre course, which was published by Kendall Hunt in Fall 2015, working on an original short play to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination, and being a mom. She frequently works with ensembles to create work that has a strong connection to the past and/or antecedent material. Past projects include America-in-Play’s Recovery Project under the artistic direction of Lynn M. Thomson, for which she received a Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas residency grant to serve as Lead Dramaturg. In 2014, through the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Elizabeth served as the Literary Manager and Reading Series Curator for Airmid Theatre Company, a professional company that focuses on classic plays by women. From 2008-2013, she served as Literary Manager of Young Playwrights Inc., a non-profit theatre company founded by Stephen Sondheim and dedicated to fostering the development of playwrights 18 years of age and younger. She also works professionally as a dramaturg, and director of community performance projects. Elizabeth received the Stony Brook University’s John Gassner Award for Dramaturgy in 2004 and the Shirley Strum Kenney Arts Festival alumni teaching award in 2013.
Alana Marino
