Amrita Ramanan is the Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In her five seasons at OSF, she served as the Production Dramaturg for a variety of productions, including Cambodian Rock Band, Snow in Midsummer, Oklahoma!, As You Like It, Macbeth, Alice in Wonderland, Henry V, and Henry IV Parts 1 & 2. Previous to her tenure at OSF, Amrita was the Literary Manager/Artistic Associate at Arena Stage, where she dramaturged Arena’s productions of Mary T. & Lizzy K., My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Trouble in Mind, Ruined, and Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies; produced the playwright residencies for Lisa Kron and Charles Randolph-Wright; and produced Arena Stage’s New Play Reading Series. For three years, Amrita was the Associate Producer and Resident Dramaturg at Double Edge Theatre and supported the development of Double Edge’s site-specific summer performances Sharazad, A Tale of Love and Magic and Once a Blue Moon. She is a board member for the Network of Ensemble Theaters and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

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