Dr. Lauren Dubowski is an artistic leader, producer, and writer. 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 in yearlong projects across art, installation and performance, and sound. She serves as the lead producer for CCAM events and exhibitions, has developed key programs like CCAM Fest, CCAM MIX, and CCAM Sponsored Courses, and initiated an open call process to invite students, faculty, staff, and community members to share their work as part of CCAM programming. Lauren has spearheaded collaborations with international artists and curators 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, Tamara Shogaolu, Jody Sperling and Time/Lapse Dance, and others.
Lauren has played a central role in the development of CCAM’s operations and team structure, including the design of staff, fellow, and student positions, as well as on communications and publication projects. She has also cultivated 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 (including serving as its Principal Investigator in 2025), as well as Ultra Space. Lauren has represented CCAM at international events, conferences, and festivals including CEC ArtsLink, the IDFA DocLab Summit, Helsinki Biennial, and the University-Industry Colloquium in 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 the Netherlands, which were supported by partners including the Dutch Creative Industries Fund, Fritt Ord Foundation, and Sundance and presented at festivals like MoMA Doc Fortnight, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and Tribeca Immersive. She was also 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 supported by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).
Lauren earned her DFA and an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Her dissertation received the university-wide Theron Rockwell Field Prize, and 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 part of her graduate work, she served as Co-Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret and Web Editor of Theater magazine, trained in theater for social change in Tanzania, and held teaching fellowships in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Film and Media Studies, and Theater Studies. Lauren holds a BA/MA in French and Francophone Studies from Bryn Mawr College and studied theater at Swarthmore College.