Suzi Elnaggar is an Egyptian-American performance scholar, freelance dramaturg, and theatre-maker. She was a 2021 Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive Fellow. She is the current VP of Communications at LMDA. In 2023, she founded the Digital Development Project, which is finishing its inaugural Phase 1. She has been the production dramaturg for TACTICS Ottawa ANANSI V. GOD(S); Jubilee Theatre Waco’s Fairview (Texas Premiere); Wild  Imaginings’ Jesus and Valium (World Premiere), The Way He Looks at You, Cardboard Castles Hung on Walls (World Premiere); Baylor Theatre’s Wills and Secession, Dancing Lessons, Treasure Island (adapted by Bryony Lavery), and The Laramie Project. For Wild Imaginings, she helped select the plays, as well as curate audience guides and lead talkbacks for the Waco Contemporary Play Series, a grant-funded series of staged readings, including The Great Leap, The Thanksgiving Play, and Topdog/Underdog. She was the festival dramaturg/literary manager for Epiphanies New Works Festival for 2021 and 2022 before her move to Chicago. Most recently, she has been the development and production dramaturg for The Great Sea Serpent, written by Tracy Davis and directed by David Catlin of lookingglass theatre, a new play in development at Northwestern’s Wirtz Theatre, premiering Spring 2024.

Dramaturg: ASPHODELS (Women’s Voices Festival at Mad Cow Theatre); LEVIATHAN (Clay & Water 2021, Clamour Theatre Company); RANDY’S DANDY COASTER CASTLE, FACULTY PORTRAIT (3B Development Series at IRT Theater); JANE EYRE, CLOUD 9, SEDER (workshop), THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, THE PIANO LESSON, HAVING OUR SAY (co-pro with Long Wharf Theatre), A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Hartford Stage); BOMBER’S MOON (Williams Street Repertory); BENEATH THE GAVEL (Bated Breath Theater Company at 59E59); THE LILY’S REVENGE, THE SHAPE SHE MAKES (American Repertory Theater); BOXCUTTER HARMONICA (Minnesota Fringe Festival); BACK (Poetic Theater Productions). Assistant Dramaturg: QUEENS FOR A YEAR, ANASTASIA (Broadway try-out), ROMEO & JULIET, THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN, REAR WINDOW (Hartford Stage). Education: BA Marymount Manhattan College; MA Ohio University; MFA A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Harvard University. Employment: Publications Associate at Concord Theatricals.

Linda Lombardi (dramaturg, Girl on a Hill) is thrilled to return to Clamour Theatre and Clay & Water, having dramaturged Familiar Kill in 2021. An artist and activist based in Washington, DC, Linda explores the intersection of dramaturgy and community engagement, and acts as a bridge between the work and the public. As a dramaturg and director, she is attracted to work that shifts our perspective and broadens our understanding of the world. Linda recently dramaturged the original site-specific play, Three Strangers Sitting Around a Backyard Firepit at Two in the Morning Listening to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. Production dramaturgy credits include Building the Wall (NNPN Rolling World Premiere), All the Way, Disgraced, and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Directing credits include Perfect Arrangement (world premiere); Pramkicker (DC premiere); Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV, Part II; Henry V; Domestic Animals; Ajax; and The White Devil. In DC, she has worked with Theatre Lab, Taffety Punk Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Studio Theatre, Mosaic Theater Company, Forum Theatre, Longacre Lea, Theater Alliance, and Catholic University of America, among others. She is a member of the artistic council for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, a script reader for Playwrights’ Center, and previously served as literary manager and artistic associate at Arena Stage.