Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen and Director of Artistic Initiatives Julie Felise Dubiner discuss the upcoming season at McCarter Theatre Center.
Get a sneak peek behind the scenes of McCarter's upcoming season. The discussion will highlight artists from the season's lineup of music, theater, dance, comedy, spoken word and family events including the original rock musical "I & You" opening in September. The talk will be moderated by McCarter’s communications director Dan Bauer.
Learn more about McCarter’s season here and see a sneak preview "I & You" at this link.
About the presenters: 
Sarah Rasmussen is the Artistic Director at McCarter Theatre Center, where she carries on its long tradition of championing innovative art. Prior to McCarter, Rasmussen was Artistic Director of the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis, where in recognition of her directing work she was named Star Tribune’s Artist of the Year. Rasmussen also served as Resident Director for Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab new work development program and Head of MFA Directing at the University of Texas at Austin. She has directed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, Dallas Theater Center, Actors Theater of Louisville and La Jolla Playhouse, and is an alum of the SoHo Rep. and Lincoln Center Directing Labs. She was an inaugural recipient of the BOLD Leadership Circle grant and is also the recipient of a Princess Grace Award, an Ivey Award for Overall Excellence, and Drama League and Fulbright fellowships. Rasmussen holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego.
Julie Felise Dubiner is Director of Artistic Initiatives at McCarter and is a dramaturg, producer, teacher, and mentor. She has freelanced around the country at the Huntington, Seattle Rep, the Shepherd School of Music, Steppenwolf, Defiant, and more. She was on staff at American Revolutions/Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Prince Music Theater. Among her dramaturgy credits are The Copper Children by Karen Zacarías, Between Two Knees by the 1491s, Sweat by Lynn Nottage, Indecent by Paula Vogel, and The Liquid Plain by Naomi Wallace. Julie has served on panels for among others the Horton Foote Prize, MAP Fund, the Playwrights’ Center, the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and is a mentor for the LMDA Early Career Dramaturg caucus. She has taught at Columbia, Yale, University of Evansville, University of the Arts, University of Portland, University of Colorado, SUNY New Paltz, and SOU. Her introductory essays are included in the Bloomsbury editions of I and You and the anthology Revolutionary Women by Lauren Gunderson. She is the co-creator of Rock & Roll: The Reunion Tour, co-author of The Process of Dramaturgy, and a contributor to Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy, The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, Innovation in Five Acts, and other publications and podcasts. She won the PT Barnum Award for Excellence in Entertainment in 2017.
