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Shirley Fishman

Shirley Fishman As Associate Artistic Director, Director of New Play Development at La Jolla Playhouse and Dramaturg, Shirley has worked with playwrights and directors on new plays and musicals (including Tony Award-winning Come from Away and Indecent), the annual POP Tour that brings new plays to San Diego County elementary schools, and workshops and readings of projects in development for the DNA new work series and beyond.


Shirley Fishman As Associate Artistic Director, Director of New Play Development at La Jolla Playhouse and Dramaturg, Shirley has worked with playwrights and directors on new plays and musicals (including Tony Award-winning Come from Away and Indecent), the annual POP Tour that brings new plays to San Diego County elementary schools, and workshops and readings of projects in development for the DNA new work series and beyond. At New York’s Public Theatre as Literary Manager and Dramaturg, Shirley worked on new plays, classics, musicals, and projects in development, and was co-curator of the New Work Now! new play reading series. Other affiliations: San Diego Rep, Denver Center Theatre, Magic Theatre, New Village Arts, New York Stage and Film, Sundance Theatre Lab, Native Voices at the Autry, among others. MFA: Columbia University.   

 

As of April 2023.