Dower

DAVID DOWER As associate artistic director at Arena, Dower is the in-house specialist for new play development and heads up a variety of initiatives aimed at helping playwrights create work for the company.

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And that might lead Japan -- the “superdomino” as it was called by the prominent Asia historian John Dower -- to “accommodate” to an independent Asia as its technological and industrial center in a system that would escape the reach of U.S. power.

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Between now and the end of the 2012-13 season, Dower adds, Arena has commitments to produce nine new plays.

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"It looks like a Google map of the United States," Dower explains.

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Dower says: We've totally reconstituted the purpose and vision of the organization.

Remodeled Arena Stage may transform D.C. theater and the city

Dower came to Arena in 2006 after 13 years at San Francisco's Z Space Studio, where he directed more than 20 world-premiere pieces.

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"Five years ago, she said this building has the potential to be this thing," says associate artistic director David Dower, recruited from San Francisco's Z Space to oversee Arena's artistic development efforts.

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Always knowing that she wanted above all to create a garden, he searched for the right project, and eventually found The Dower House at Morville in Shropshire, a National Trust property offered for lease to applicants for a period of twenty years at a time.

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"I feel that this is a golden era for the new play, in that we have so many programs and so much money funneling in," Dower said.

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