Tessa LaNeve is the Director of ESPA and New Arts Programming at Primary Stages. She has worked on and Off-Broadway and regionally as a freelance dramaturg with such artists as Tanya Barfield, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Terrence McNally, Horton Foote, Tina Howe, Cusi Cram, Brooke Berman, and Martín Zimmerman. She co-produced the 2014 Lilly Awards Broadway Cabaret at Birdland, the 2014 Leah Ryan Benefit at Joe's Pub, the 2011 and 2014 New York One-Minute Play Festivals, Cusi Cram's The West Village Project, the 2009 Town Hall Discussion on Gender Disparity in Theater, as well as the annual ESPA Drills Reading Series and the monthly Detention Performance Series. She has worked at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geva Theater Center, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and The Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. She teaches Playwriting at ESPA and Dramatic Structure for the Fordham/Primary Stages MFA in Playwriting. She holds a BA from Barnard College and studied Dramaturgy and Script Development at Columbia University's School of the Arts. She is a proud board member of the Leah Ryan Foundation and the O'Neill Theater Center's NPC Artistic Council.
Tessa LaNeve