Interviews
Interview with Lisa Steindler by Jamie Gahlon
Lisa Steindler, Executive Artistic Director of San Francisco’s Z Space sat down with Jamie Gahlon to talk about their technical residencies. Jamie: What are the technical residencies at Z Space? And what made you start offering them? Lisa: Our technical residencies subsidize artists’ use of our theater, lights, sound system, tech
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Process
City Council Meeting: Theater of Tiny Disjuncture by Aaron Landsman
This is local government filtered through the lens of art. Why is that a good thing? We hope seeing governance as a performance of power, rather than an application of it, can be liberating. No one is pretending to be someone else. You can volunteer to read the words of
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Interviews
Interview with Yussef el Guindi by Vincent Delaney
Vince: When did you start writing plays in Seattle? Yussef: I began focusing on playwriting when I stopped all thoughts of becoming an actor—and later, a filmmaker (I made a short film in Seattle under a pseudonym). I had been writing continuously for awhile, but really applied myself when all these
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Ideas
Getting Here by Vincent Delaney
It was with a healthy dose of trepidation that my wife, young daughter and I moved to Seattle in 2005. Actually it wasn’t a move, but a return: Northwest natives, we’d spent the previous four years breathing the heady air of the Playwrights’ Center, where energized, gracious, and determined writers
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Blog
The Weekly Howl on Tues, May 22: Vote on what the #newplay community should discuss!
We at HowlRound want to know what you—the #newplay community on Twitter—want to discuss in this week’s Weekly Howl. Be the community’s idea generator and submit and vote on your favorite topics here! The poll closes just a few moments prior to the start of the Howl. Last week, talked about “Alternative Forms
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The David Dower Friday Phone Call # 27: Ilana Brownstein
Today I talk with Ilana Brownstein, known to #newplay followers as @bostonturgy. She’s the founder of the Playwrights’ Commons in Boston and we’re going to be very involved with each other as we move forward in the transition to the Center for the Theater Commons in her city. We talk
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Why Every Working Mother (Parent) Needs a Stage Manager by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder
Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder returns to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s Southern Writers’ Project with a new play and a new kid. Follow Elyzabeth in part two of this three part series (find part one here) as she tries to balance rewrites and rehearsals with the challenges of being a working mom on
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Hot Convos
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In Defense of Supporting Work by Women: Thoughts from a Loud Mouthed Feminist Theater Girl by Meghan Arnette
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In Defense of Supporting Work by Women: Thoughts from a Loud Mouthed Feminist Theater Girl by Meghan Arnette
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In Defense of Supporting Work by Women: Thoughts from a Loud Mouthed Feminist Theater Girl by Meghan Arnette
#NEWPLAY ON TWITTER
RT @halcyontony: Really good group of playwrights at PlayPenn again this year http://t.co/KAYIBjSD #newplay
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