Contemporary dramaturge and cross-media production artist Marianne Weems has amassed an unusual breadth and depth of professional
experience. She has worked with the likes of David Byrne and Susan
Sontag, and is the co-founder and artistic director of the New York
performance company The Builders Association.The company creates
multimedia theatre productions addressing hot-button topics such as
globalization and surveillance, productions which have been hailed by
the Wall Street journal as "theatrical alchemy in which ideas are
turned into art by making them more beautiful." Weems's desire to
create, and encourage others to create, such experimental and
multi-disciplinary work has driven her to serve on the board of
directors of Yaddo and Art Matters, and to pursue an academic career
that recently landed her a position as head of the graduate directing
program at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama.