I have loved serving as your regional rep. In a profession that so often revolves around scarcity, serving as your rep has given me an extraordinary lens through which I’ve come to appreciate the abundance of strength, support, talent, diversity, joy, pain, love, and promise that makes our community of dramatists and theatre artists so special.
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I often say that I didn’t understand the meaning of “grace” until I lost a parent, when grace appeared to me in the form of people who personified it. I would describe my service in the Guild the same way: in serving you I’ve come to understand what service is. And I am a better human for it. The cohort of Reps that serve around the country are an exceptional bunch. They personify service. Each and every rep brings their own energy, ideas, programming, and their gifts to the table. As with every corner of our industry, we need to make room at that table for artists of color. And so, as I step down, it’s my hope that I will pass the baton to a dramatist from our region who is part of the BIPOC community. Please join me in making that happen.
Meanwhile, I’ll still be around, and I’ll continue to advocate for you, uplift your work, and be curious about what I don’t know. And when our new rep plans a Twin Cities event, I’ll see you there!
Laurie
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Nominate Your Next Regional Rep
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We hope that you'll join us at the Dramatists Guild in celebrating all of the work and sustained programming that Laurie Flanigan Hegge has done to support playwrights and DG members in her region. Nominations for our next Twin Cities Regional Rep will be due on Thursday, July 23 at 11:59pm Eastern Time.
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Following that deadline, nominees will be contacted to accept or decline their nomination. We will then collect bios from the nominees, so that members in the region can consider each candidate. Once this process is complete, a ballot will be assembled, and sent out shortly thereafter, thereby enabling all members in the Twin Cities to participate in a general election.
The Dramatists Guild promotes the core belief that the theatre should be a diverse and inclusive place that holds a mirror up to the world, endorsing the principles of equal opportunity for all who work in the theatre. To these ends, we encourage the nomination of persons of every race, color, culture, age, gender, physical disability, and sexual orientation, in order to move towards achieving a theatre industry, both on and off stage, that reflects the full diversity of American society. We encourage our members to make this a priority when submitting nominations.
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Benefits of Becoming a DG Regional Rep:
- Complimentary DG membership and visibility as a national representative during your elected three-year term (Click here for a full list of DG membership benefits);
- Open communication with Regional Council members, who weigh in on organization-wide decisions;
- Strengthening relationships through community engagement and improving the standards for dramatists with theatres and artistic organizations in your region;
- Ongoing engagement, resource training, and skill-building with DG staff;
- Partnering with Regional Representatives and Ambassadors across the world to learn about what might be possible to help writers in your region;
- Opportunity to submit nominees for the Lanford Wilson Award.
Requirements of a DG Regional Rep:
- Commitment to a three-year term;
- The programming of regional DG events, such as meet and greets, readings/Friday Night Footlights, or town hall meetings. You will also be required to submit the information about programming and the state of new writing in your region to the DG’s national office in New York, where it will be distributed to the membership;
- The managing of a regional budget for the facilitation of events and programming;
- The submission of three Regional Reports per year, to be published in The Dramatist, and to also be distributed via social media;
- Attendance at monthly online meetings with other Regional Reps across the nation, and with Dramatists Guild staff;
- Community strengthening and member outreach.
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Manager, Regional Rep Program
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