Reports from the Regions
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San Francisco
Happy birthday! The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco is turning 30 this year. PCSF’s mission is “to encourage and develop local playwrights and promote script writing, audience development, and related arts.” To achieve this, the organization offers staged readings, developmental readings, scene nights, and playwriting classes. PCSF also produces the annual short play festival called [More...]
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Salt Lake City
Theatres have committed to new plays in a big way in Salt Lake City. In the months ahead, I’ll visit various theatres in the area to give you an overview of the work being done. Recently, I visited Pioneer Theatre Company (PTC), the professional, LORT B theatre at the University of Utah, to discuss their [More...]
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Pittsburgh
At the top of Bricolage Theater Company’s mission statement is a dictionary definition of “bric-o-lage…making artful use of what’s at hand.” In a conversation with wife and husband team, Producing Artistic Director Tami Dixon and Artistic Director Jeffrey Carpenter, it is clear that this phrase is not just words for their funders or website—it’s a [More...]
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Chicago
Four theatre companies in Chicago have received the Regional Theatre Tony Award: Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1985, Goodman Theatre in 1992, Victory Gardens Theater in 2001, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 2008. And while the work of these prestigious institutions has been met with local, national, and international acclaim, there are many people who feel [More...]
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Ohio
The handwriting was on the proscenium in 1965, when I appeared in a Shaker Heights High School production of Kiss Me, Kate. Hoping to play Bianca, I was cast instead as one of the servants whose sole line was “Here, sir!” I quickly realized my future did not hold any lead roles, but I had [More...]
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Houston
Guild member Elizabeth Gilbert (Liz) was prominently featured in a September 7th New Yorker article as a woman who began a friendship in 1999 with Cameron Todd Willingham, an inmate on Texas’s death row. He was executed February 17, 2004; chances are good that he will be exonerated. Three months prior to Todd’s execution, Liz [More...]
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Washington, D.C.
Ah!—‘tis a lonely profession, that of the writer! We engage humanity in our art, but typically do so in the solitary confinement of that quiet place where we scurry off to work in undisturbed isolation. So it’s a pleasant change of pace when writers have an opportunity to gather with fellow scribes for a little [More...]
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Atlanta
Two of my former students went on to school in NYC. Now they’re both ready to graduate and go into the biz. One is going to float around the city for a while and see which of his several project offers looks the most promising. The other is returning to Atlanta to make a summer [More...]
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Los Angeles
I used to keep a list documenting all the plays I’d mailed to theatres (following Dramatists Guild Resource Directory submission guidelines, of course), my follow-up efforts and the responses I received. I stopped keeping the list when the NO RESPONSE column was three times as long as the REJECTION column. I stopped mailing plays shortly [More...]
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Los Angeles