Introduction : Dramaturgy in motion / Philippa Kelly -- Section ONE : permission to speak. 1. Deconstructing our perspectives on casting : an "inter-article" with Hana S. Sharif / Faedra Chatard Carpenter -- 2. Dramaturgy as prophecy : Facing our truth and dramaturging the predominantly white institution / Scott Horstein -- 3. The dramaturgy of the classroom / Awele Makeba -- Section TWO : taking up positions – playwright/dramaturg. 4. The dramaturgy of black culture : The Court theatre's productions of August Wilson's Century cycle / Martine Kei Green-Rogers -- 5. Embodied dramaturgy : the development of the indigenous play, The patron saint of the lost children / Izumi Ashizawa, with Ajuawak Kapashesit -- 6. The name (isn’t a) game : new explorations in trans applied theatre / Finn Lefevre -- 7. Translation and form / Julie Felise Dubiner -- Section THREE : who’s "at the table"? 8. Crossing the line / Jonathan Meth -- 9. Depth perception : re-thinking social roles, staging Asperger’s from the inside / Tim Collingwood -- 10. Decolonizing “equity, diversity and inclusion” : strategies for resisting white supremacy / Annalisa Dias -- 11. Dramaturging revolution : Diana Oh’s {my lingerie play} 2017 : the concert and call to arms!!!!!!!!! the final installation / Mei Ann Teo -- Section FOUR : cultural landscapes, past, present and future. 12. The stakes of expanding a cultural landscape : dramaturging, adapting and performing Gao Xingjian’s The other shore / Walter Byongsok Chon -- 13. Visit to a zoot planet : UCSC suits up in 2017 / Michael M. Chemers -- 14. The dramaturgical impulse : or how big is your universe? / Mark Bly -- 15. Dethroning ourselves from the center / Philippa Kelly.