Dr. Lauren Dubowski, DFA, MFA, is an artistic leader, creative producer, educator, and researcher, as well as a writer, editor, and translator. Her practice is grounded in dramaturgy, with a focus on building connections across disciplines, cultures, and languages. At CCAM, she curates and produces programming, working closely with the team, collaborators, fellows, and guest artists and curators, while shaping the center’s creative vision, communications, and community impact. She joined CCAM in 2021 as its inaugural Assistant Director and served as Interim Director from January to August 2025.
At CCAM, Lauren directs the Studio Fellowship, which provides mentorship, support, and exhibition opportunities for creators from Yale and New Haven through their yearlong projects across art, installation and performance, and sound. She serves as the lead producer for CCAM events and exhibitions, has designed and developed key programs like CCAM Fest, CCAM MIX, and CCAM Sponsored Courses, and founded an open call process to invite students, faculty, staff, and community members to share their work as part of CCAM programming. In her time at CCAM, Lauren has initiated and spearheaded collaborations with artists and curators from on and off campus—including Fabiola Alondra, Lacina Coulibaly (with the Yale Art Gallery), Tusia Dabrowska, Wiktor Freifeld, Reshma Srivastava (in collaboration with Yale School of Art students), Rashaad Newsome (in collaboration with Tavia Nyong’o), Sarah Oppenheimer (in collaboration with V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media, Netherlands), Tamara Shogaolu, Jody Sperling and Time/Lapse Dance, Marta Jovanović and Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA) (with Elise Morrison), and others.
In addition, Lauren has played a central role in the development of CCAM’s approach to production, operations, and team structure, including the design of staff roles, fellowships for guest artists and curators, and faculty and student collaborations. She leads CCAM communications and has guided publication projects such as CCAM's Annual Report and the Ultra Space Printed Volume. She has also built collaborative partnerships at Yale and off-campus, including with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Ventures, and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, as well as the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven. She has written for the CCAM Maquette, exhibited her creative work in the ISOVIST Gallery, and engaged in research projects with the Yale-HP Curricular Technology Project, also having served as its Principal Investigator in 2025. Lauren has represented CCAM at international events, conferences, and festivals including CEC ArtsLink, the IDFA DocLab Summit (Netherlands), Helsinki Biennial, Press Play at Pioneer Works, and the University-Industry Colloquium in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Prior to joining CCAM, Lauren held a Fulbright fellowship to Poland, later working there on international editorial, writing, and translation projects with arts and cultural institutions such as the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Łódź Museum of Art, and Warszawa Biennale. She also produced award-winning media projects with Ado Ato Pictures in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which were supported by partners including the Dutch Creative Industries Fund, Fritt Ord Foundation, and Sundance, and presented at festivals worldwide such as MoMA Doc Fortnight, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and Tribeca Immersive. She was also a Luce Scholar in Indonesia, with an additional focus on Japan. Lauren was a founding member of the theater company Guilty by Association (Canada) and worked with artists from Headlong and Pig Iron Theatre Company to establish the Headlong Performance Institute in Philadelphia. She has written for publications like European Stages, and her translation work has been commissioned and supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), and Lars Jan/Early Morning Opera.
In 2023, Lauren received her DFA and an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Her dissertation, awarded the university-wide Theron Rockwell Field Prize for creative writing and scholarship, brought an international perspective to the dramaturgy and performance history of the 20th-century theater and visual artist Stanisław Wyspiański, and included her new translations of three of his major dramas. Her research was supported by the MacMillan Center, as well as the U.S. Department of Education’s Foreign Language and Area Studies Program. As Co-Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret—an independent, experimental, and community-oriented space where School of Drama MFA students can work outside of their traditional disciplines—she curated and creative produced an 18-show season of performances. She also served as Web Editor of Theater magazine, trained with the Yale School of Drama Summer Program in Theater for Social Change in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and held teaching fellowships in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Theater Studies, and Film and Media Studies. Lauren holds a BA/MA in French and Francophone Studies from Bryn Mawr College and studied Theater, with an emphasis in Directing, at Swarthmore College.