Jack Phillips Moore

Biography

Jack Phillips Moore is a New York-based dramaturg, teacher and theater administrator with a focus on new play development, originally from the District of Columbia.

Moore works as the associate director of new work development at The Public Theater, where he has served the development of dozens of new plays and musicals for over a decade. At The Public, Moore also leads the Emerging Writers Group and other artist-focused programs. Projects Moore has developed have premiered at theaters across the country and have received numerous honors, including Obie Awards, Tony Award nominations, the Princess Grace Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

He has dramaturged/consulted on new work for Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Colt Coeur, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Lark, Long Wharf Theatre, Ma-Yi Theater, New Dramatists, The Orchard Project, the Playwrights Center, SPACE on Ryder Farm and WP Theater, to name a few.