ABSTRACT
In 1977 Yale established an M.F.A./D.F.A. program in dramaturgy, the first in America. During the same period, beginning around 1974, the first consumer computers came on the market. By the mid 1980s, professional dramaturgs formally founded Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), a sign that the field was growing in North America and that there was a desire among dramaturgs to share ideas and practices with each other and with the theatre field as a whole. In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh computer, and by 1985 the internet as we know it was becoming available to the general public.
