Mark Bly Joins Fordham/Primary Stages' MFA Playwriting Program

Dramaturg Mark Bly, who has worked as an adjunct instructor for the Fordham University Theatre Department since 2014, has just joined the Fordham/Primary Stages MFA program as co-director, in collaboration with Elliot Fox of Primary Stages.

The Fordham/Primary Stages MFA playwriting program offers emerging writers the opportunity to develop and produce their work in a rigorous Fordham setting, while simultaneously fostering professional relationships with Primary Stages, an award-winning Off-Broadway theatre company.

Over the past thirty-five years, Mark Bly has served as a Chair of several major graduate playwriting programs and has been a Dramaturg, Director of New Play Development, and Associate Artistic Director at the leading regional theaters across the country, editing and producing over 200 new plays. He has dramaturged on Emily Mann's Execution of Justice (1985), Moises Kaufman's 33 Variations (2009), and lbsen's An Enemy of the People (2012).

Bly has written for numerous publications: Yale Theatre as Contributing Editor and Advisory Editor, Theatre Forum, American Theatre, and The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy. He is the Editor of Production Notebooks: Theatre in Process: Volumes I & II, and Special Editor for Yale Theatre, "Return of the Dramaturgs".

In 2010, Bly received the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas G.E. Lessing Career Achievement Award. In 2014, he funded and initiated the 4 year Bly Creative Capacity Grant/Fellowship Program for LMDA.

Pictured: Mark Bly with Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith at the opening night for MOTHER COURAGE in 2014.