bryan howard

Co-taught 10 English classes (about 25 students each) at MAN Wonosari, a public Islamic high school in Wonosari, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Also ran the English Club, helped students prepare for English debate competitions, hosted a school-wide English speech competition, and participated in the school's theatre club. Visited various middle and high schools in Wonosari to speak with English classes and do Q&A's in English. Together with MAN Wonosari's English Club, developed, filmed, and edited videos and generated study materials to teach English speakers Indonesian and Javanese vocabulary. Co-organized a day-long teacher training for Indonesian English teachers from SMAN1 Yogyakarta, SMK6 Yogyakarta, and MAN Wonosari with with fellow ETA's and Yogyakarta's English Language Fellow .

Worked as one of five interns in the O'Neill's Literary Office. Provided research and printing support for Puppetry, Cabaret, Playwrights, and Music Theater Conferences. Transcribed the script for Barb Jungr and John McDaniel’s Beatles-themed cabaret "Come Together." Maintained script library and archived materials for all conferences. Worked as assistant dramaturg on Hansol Jung’s "Cardboard Piano" and Carla Ching’s "Nomad Motel."

Edited a weekly e-newsletter and contributed weekly to the theatre’s blog. Coordinated ad swaps with local theatres and maintained partnership with cupcakery Le Cupcake. Publicized the season at various community events around Lincoln. Planned opening night receptions for three-show season. House managed performances in the three-show repertory season.

Part of the Theater's Corporate, Foundation, and Government giving team and report directly to the Direct of Partnerships. Responsible for writing, compiling, and submitting foundation, corporate, and government grant letters of inquiry, proposals, and reports for approximately 50 institutional donors. Draft gift acknowledgement letters, help maintain and foster institutional relationships, and conduct prospect research to identify new institutional donors. Manage, organize, and synthesize service data for productions and education programming. Additionally, write audience-facing copy on the Theater’s various programs for playbills and bi-monthly audience e-newsletter.

Worked in a six-person literary office and had a variety of creative and administrative responsibilities. Literary management tasks included processing script submissions, maintaining full-length and 10-minute play databases, proofreading publications, providing script coverage and evaluation for over 300 10-minute plays, and writing articles on playwrights for the Humana Festival Guide publication. Worked as dramaturg on 14 new works including short solo-performance pieces, a site-specific one-act play, and 10-minute plays. Worked as assistant dramaturg on three world premiere Humana Festival of New American Plays productions as well as mainstage productions of "Macbeth" and Annie Baker's "Circle Mirror Transformation." Additionally, was part of the team that developed and wrote a web series that featured local bands and venues and culminated in a live finale with musician Ben Sollee.

Responsible for overseeing the day-to-day running of the 11-person literary office. Trained five interns in the O'Neill's new play development revision process, generated weekly schedules, submitted supply orders, formatted and oversaw the distribution of 11 plays and musicals in development in the National Playwrights and National Music Theater Conferences, troubleshot copier and technological problems, and worked as assistant dramaturg on Steve DiUbaldo's play "Exposure." Also worked to standardize archival procedures and provided research, printing, and transcription support for National Puppetry and National Cabaret & Performance Conferences.