Brad Rothbart

Since 2014, Mx. Rothbart has served as a script reader for a number of organizations including Playwrights Center, National Endowment for The Arts Theater and Musical Theater Panel FY 2017, Great Plains Theatre Conference, and PlayPenn. Their essay, "Once More Unto The Breach: An Anatomized Philippic Regarding the Relationship of Disability to the Contemporary American Theatre" was published by American Theatre in October 2015. In 2016, Brad was named to the Executive Board of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) as VP of Grants and Awards. Mx. Rothbart is a member of the 2016 ArtEquity Cohort, and is currently taking a deep dive into their own white privilege, while simultaneously attempting to become a better activist in the fight for a more diverse, inclusive, and healthier theatrical ecology. Presently, Mx. Rothbart’s research interrogates the positioning of autoethnography within process-based dramaturgy. Brad’s pronouns are They/Them.