We are excited to announce that Anne G. Morgan is joining our team as Literary Manager. The new position was created to guide and support the Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Project.  Morgan will be responsible for managing the submission process and will be the point of contact for playwrights interested in the project. ​

Morgan joins our team after seven years at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center where she has served as Literary Manager since 2012. At the O’Neill, she provided dramaturgical support to the center’s programs and managed its selection processes including reviewing over 1,500 applications annually. She has extensive dramaturgical experience and has worked on new plays by David Auburn, Bekah Brunstetter, Adam Esquenazi Douglas, and more. Anne has worked internationally at the Baltic Playwrights Conference, the Latvian Academy of Culture, and the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. She has taught dramaturgy and script analysis at the University of Connecticut, the National Theater Institute, and the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

What does she have to say about all of this? “I believe that contemporary playwriting is experiencing a Golden Age, and I can’t think of anything more exciting than putting today’s writers in conversation with one of the most revered playwrights of all time. The Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries initiative is a bold commitment to both the future of playwriting and to the legacy of Shakespeare’s texts. I am eager to dig into the work ahead and look forward to the new canon that we’ll be creating with this program.”

The Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Project is a nationally recognized playwriting competition launched to inspire the world’s most talented playwrights to compose original works that serve as partner plays to Shakespeare’s classics. The ASC will select one companion play for each of Shakespeare’s 38 titles and produce two new plays in repertory with their Shakespeare partner each year. Winning playwrights will receive a $25,000 cash prize.

“We couldn’t have found a better person to lead this project,” says Managing Director Amy Wratchford. “Anne brings not only a wealth of knowledge and experience to the ASC, but the respect of playwrights world-wide who have worked with her at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center and beyond.”

Morgan begins work at the ASC in September.