First Name
Cynthia
Middle Name
M.
Last Name
SoRelle
City
State or Province
TX
Country
Job Title
Bly Grant Ambassador, LMDA and Professor of Theatre
Website
Biography
Cynthia M. (Cindy) SoRelle served from 2005 to 2015 on the LMDA Board of Directors and as Board Chair from 2009 to 2015. She currently serves on the Bly Creative Capacity Grants Committee. She also chairs the Dramaturgy Debut Competition for ATHE and has served as Chair for the Region VI KCACTF Dramaturgy initiative and O'Neill Critics Institute multiple times. Her dramaturgical experience includes more than 100 plays and musicals, seven years of professional opera dramaturgy as well as dance dramaturgy and Greek drama adaptation. She has adjudicated more than 100 play festivals and competitions and received the Texas Educational Theatre Association's Founders Award for "outstanding contributions to theatre in Texas." She holds a PhD in theatre history and criticism from the University of Texas at Austin under the tutelage of the late Oscar G. Brockett. She teaches at McLennan College and works as a freelance dramaturg. In 2015 she received the College Theatre Educator of the Year Award from TETA.
Interested in freelance opportunities
Yes
Languages spoken (New)
English, Spanish