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Jack Phillips Moore

Jack Phillips Moore (Dramaturg) is a New York-based dramaturg, teacher and theater administrator with a focus on new play development, originally from the District of Columbia. Jack works as the Associate Director of New Work Development at The Public Theater, where he has served the development of dozens of new plays and musicals over the last decade. At the Public, Jack also leads the Emerging Writers Group and other artist-focused programs. Projects Jack has helped develop have premiered at theaters across the country and have received numerous honors including Obie Awards, Tony Award nominations, the Princess Grace Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He has also dramaturged/consulted on new work for Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Colt Coeur, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Lark, Long Wharf Theatre, Ma-Yi Theater, New Dramatists, The Orchard Project, the Playwrights Center, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and WP Theater, to name a few. Recent and upcoming productions include Good Bones by James Ijames (Public Theater), Oh Happy Day! by Jordan E. Cooper (Baltimore Center Stage), The Other Americans by John Leguizamo (Arena Stage), and Let’s Keep Dancing by John Purugganan (Public Theater) as well as new plays by Lisa Sanaye Dring, and Mona Mansour. Jack has taught courses in dramaturgy, theater history and administration at NYU, the Atlantic Theater School, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and the Tepper Semester at Syracuse University and has served as a juror/consultant for the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Leah Ryan Prize and the Kilroys, among many others. He is a graduate of New York University and lives in Brooklyn.