San Francisco-area dramaturg and director Jayne Wenger sees her role as simply the playwright’s advocate.

“I have had a long and enduring love affair with playwrights.  I have embraced a life that has at its core the art of theater,” Wenger says.

Wenger, who has been involved in performing and theater since grade school, has practiced dramaturgy since the early 1980s.

“I found myself working on new plays as an actor and understood that I was more interested in the evolution of the text and the process of writing and developing the play, getting it to the stage.”  

(excerpt from interview in “Insights for Playwrights”, April 2008)