<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> <p><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Dylan Southard is the co-Artistic Director of needtheater and previously served as their resident dramaturg and literary manager. Production dramaturgy credits for needtheater include: </font></font></font><font style="font-style: italic;" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Fatboy</font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">, </font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: italic;">Mercury Fur</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Scarcity</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">tempOdyssey</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Web</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>.</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> He also recently directed needtheater's world premiere production of </font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: italic;">Guided Consideration of a Lamentable Deed</span>. He</font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> is the resident dramaturg for The Robey Theatre Company at the Los Angeles Theater Center, where he runs the advanced playwrights lab and helps to oversee new play development. He is also an associate artist with the international, new script development group LoNyLa, and works as a script consultant for theaters, including The Center Theatre Group, The Geffen Playhouse, The Theatre @ Boston Court, and Native Voices at the Autry. He trained for two years under a dramaturgy fellowship at Centerstage in Baltimore and is a graduate of Wesleyan University. </font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>