CORY JAMES DUNN
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I am an equity-driven, problem-solving producer who is incredibly passionate about the arts and their ability to spark empathy. I produce and curate theatre, stand-up, and music for live performance venues. I seek the untold stories for stage: the overlooked perspectives that can spark curiosity and self-reflection while also relishing in joy. In the non-profit arts space, I create fundamental systems to support operations for artistic and production staffs, putting humanity at the center of all practices. I support the next generation of artists and arts leaders, refreshing the industry with bold ideas about the future of the field.
And I want to work with you to build a brighter future.
In Summary
Cory James Dunn is a Producer, Director, and Arts Administrator based in Queens, NY. He currently serves as Associate Director, Chief of Staff for Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Previously, Cory has produced and managed theatre, stand-up, and music in staff positions at Roundabout Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre Center, and Gulfshore Playhouse. He has produced and curated performances by artists like Abby Govindan & Jungle Cat Comedy, Dessa, Jason Robert Brown, Sutton Foster, Mandy Patinkin, Ira Glass, Lake Street Dive, Emily Mann, Paula Vogel, Santino Fontana, Katerina McCrimmon, Sarah Ruhl, and All My Relations Collective. 2018-2019 McCarter Directing/Producing Apprentice. Former Teaching Assistant at Hangar Theatre. B.A. Creative Writing from Florida State University.
In Practice
Mohanad Elsheiky & Abby Govindan, Jungle Cat Comedy. Photography by Lawrence Sumulong.
Curation
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: Jungle Cat Comedy; The Moth; Katerina McCrimmon: Naked; Skeleton Canoe; Genesis presents: there are no dead people
McCarter Theatre Center: Comedy at McCarter
The Company of Ride the Cyclone, McCarter Theatre Center. Photography by T Charles Erickson.
Theatrical Producing
Roundabout Theatre Company: The Refocus Project 2023
McCarter Theatre Center: The Toni Morrison Project; Between Two Knees; The Wolves; A Christmas Carol; Ride the Cyclone; Dreaming Zenzile; New Voices Aloud 2019; Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (workshop); The Aves (workshop); Letters From Max (workshop); The Connector (workshop)
Live Theatrics: Reasons to Be Pretty; Edges
Dessa. Photography by Melina Valdez.
Event Producing
McCarter Theatre Center: An Evening with Mandy Patinkin & Kathryn Grody; Dessa; Lake Street Dive; Seven Things I've Learned, a talk with Ira Glass; An Evening with Sutton Foster; Comedy at McCarter (Baron Vaughn, Abby Govindan); The Big Time (Santino Fontana, Laura Osnes); Paula Vogel's A Christmas Carol Bake-Off; Zach Zimmerman
Isabel Rodriguez in Bye Bye Birdie, Endstation Theatre Company. Photography by Jill Nance Waugh.
Directing
Endstation Theatre Company: Bye Bye Birdie
McCarter Theatre Center: Paula Vogel's A Christmas Carol Bake-Off; New Voices Aloud 2019
Live Theatricals: Edges
Rogue Productions: Jurassic Park: The Musical; The Aliens; A Behanding in Spokane
Larry Paulsen in The Merchant of Venice, Gulfshore Playhouse. Photography by Pedro Zepada.
Production Management
Gulfshore Playhouse: The Mystery of Irma Vep; Miss Keller Has No Second Book; Scapino; The Price; Leading Ladies; The Christians; The Merchant of Venice; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Do This; My Fair Lady; Constellations; The Who and The What; An Enemy of the People; Moon Over Buffalo; Informed Consent; Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol; Boeing, Boeing; The Glass Menagerie
Leave Your Mark Productions: send/end (Atlanta Fringe 2012)
Sarah Rasmussen & Valeria Torres-Olivares, Fireside Chats.
Digital Content
McCarter Theatre Center: Fireside Chats; DESSA @MCCARTER; The Manic Monologues
A Taste
