Eric C. Webb
Dramaturg/Literary Manager/Playwright
ERIC C. WEBB is the Director of Creative Development for Ken Davenport’s TheaterMakers Studio as well as a writer and freelance dramaturg.
For the TheaterMakers Studio, Eric provides script consultation and educational programming for the playwriting community including monthly writers groups, group and private mentorship, and writing workshops. He also scouts for new properties and artists for production and development.
Writing projects in development include Rise (with composer Scott Wilkinson, directed by Richard Blake (Broadway: A Bronx Tale, Legally Blonde)), the anti-bullying musical #JustBeYou (commissioned by Random Farms Kids Theater, composed by Stephanie Bianchi), Breakup - The Musical (an irreverent new musical, also with Stephanie Bianchi), Thompson/Gifford (a Gothic chamber musical).
Previous writing credits include A White Man's Guide to Rikers Island, Krampusnacht (segments commissioned by March Forth Productions), Tania (commissioned by White Rabbit Productions, published by Indie Theater Now), “Orion” (short film, produced by Second Star NYC), The Angels of Mons (March Forth Productions/Horsetrade at Theater Under St. Marks), Ubu - a twisted puppet show co-adapted from Jarry's Ubu Roi, Playwriting is Easy and Strange Currencies.
Previous Literary Management/Dramaturgy credits include Gina Femia's one-woman show, Things I Don't Want to Talk About with March Forth Productions, Literary Management for La Vie Productions (2009-2013), Associate Literary Manager for the 2008 John Gassner New Play Festival, Dramaturg for Stephen Sondheim’s Young Playwrights Inc. (2008 – present), Un-American Activities (new musical by William Norman), Escape From Happiness and Lynn Nottage's Las Meninas (directed by Talvin Wilks). Eric is also the former Artistic Director of March Forth Productions.
Eric received his MFA in Dramaturgy & Literary Management from Stony Brook University (2008).