Roweena Mackay

Roweena Mackay is the area head of Live & Screened Performance at the University of Arizona, she also teaches theatre at the Tohono O'odham Community College.  She is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

As a dramaturg, she has worked with August Wilson (Radio Golf, Yale Repertory Theatre), Culture Clash (Culture Clash in AmeriCCa, Yale Repertory Theatre), Mac Wellman (Two September, The Flea), Liz Swados (Kaspar Hauser, The Flea), Qui Nguyen (She Kills Monsters, NyLon), Rhiana Yazzie (The Dreaming Bundle, New Native Theatre) and Jon Bernson (When Lighting the Void, Bay Area Playwrights Festival).  From 2006 – 2009, she was the resident dramaturg for Bone Orchard, an ensemble-based theatre company in NYC which she co-founded with theatre and film director, Anna Jones Rodriguez.  

Roweena is also an independent contractor in film, television and new media: production credits include Art Department Coordinator for Sorry to Bother You (dir. Boots Riley), Location Manager for Appropriate Behavior (dir. Desiree Akhavan),  Assistant Director for Glass Chin (dir. Noah Buschel), Script Supervisor for Anyone But Me (dir. Tina Cesa Ward), Production Coordinator for John Leguizamo's Ghetto Clown (dir. Fisher Stevens), Producer for CC Dances the Go-Go (dir. Erin Buckley), Producer for The Birch Grove (choreographed by Gabrielle Lansner) and most recently, Researcher for Presumed Innocent (Apple TV).

Other professional highlights include working for 59E59 Theaters, Theatre Communications Group, Trisha Brown's Dance Company, the Playwright's Foundation and Borderlands Theater.

Roweena is currently digging in archives for a project she is developing on Native American participation in the 1940 movie Arizona and she is also interviewing her colleague Rick Wamer for a volume on Ecodramaturgies for the Routledge Focus on Dramaturgy series, edited by Magda Romanska.