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advocacy, change the ratio, conversation starter, dispatches, ideas, international, playwrights, social profit, theatrical ecosystem
Other Voices, Other Rooms
05.20.13 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThere’s been a lot of talk online recently about the need for women playwrights to be better represented, have more opportunities, and be, if you’ll excuse the vagary, more equal. That’s lovely. As a woman playwright, I am all for that kind of talk, and the more there is of it, in any context, the [...]
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#2amt, #tawg, advocacy, community, conversation starter, rabble rousing, talk about what's good
Ordering off the menu
02.04.13 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI grew up in a household that was… healthy. Healthy healthy. Lima (bean) burgers, grinding grain blends for homemade bread, fresh milk from family friends who ran a small farm… my folks idea of retirement was decamping the suburbs and repairing to a 10 acre tract further north in New Hampshire so they could farm [...]
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advocacy, community, conversation starter, ideas, presenting, rabble rousing, social profit, the future, theatrical ecosystem
Artisphere: What Could Be…
01.07.13 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe DC Theatre community took a hit recently when Artisphere announced that due to a policy change its resident theatre company WSC Avant Bard would be kicked out in the middle of its season. I feel deeply for the company; it is upsetting have your home taken from you and I wish them all the [...]
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advocacy, conversation starter, education, engagement, ideas, journalism, mission, social profit, storytelling
Responding As Artists to Newtown
Terror and Courage, Hope and Art We can’t claim to engage our communities in important conversations if we run away from them One of the plays to generate the most interest at our recent National Showcase of New Plays was Pluto, by the prolific and supremely-talented Steve Yockey. An alum of NNPN’s MFA Playwrights’ Workshop [...]
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#2amt, advocacy, community, social profit, support the arts, the future
Vote.
Are you registered to vote in this year’s election? I shouldn’t have to tell you why it’s important, especially this year and especially if you work in the arts. But whichever way you decide to vote, it’s important that you have the chance to do so. 2amt has teamed up with Rock the Vote to [...]
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#2amt, advocacy, journalism, playwrights, rabble rousing, social media
3C Or Not 3C?
07.17.12 | Permalink | 5 CommentsThis afternoon, the New York Times ran a story by Patrick Healy about the producers of Three’s Company & their reaction to 3C, a play by David Adjmi. At issue is the question of copyright and intellectual property, fair use vs. parody and/or transformative, derivative work. Healy cites productions such as Dog Sees God and [...]
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advocacy, classical theatre, community, conversation starter, ideas, major regional theatre, mission, rabble rousing, social profit, theatrical ecosystem
One Hundred and Twenty Seconds
04.26.12 | Permalink | 13 CommentsA lot has been said about the Guthrie’s season announcement, and probably a lot more will be. I want to focus on one part of it. But first, I want to say that while I don’t disagree with most of the criticism the Guthrie has worked hard over the last decade or so to foster [...]
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advocacy, non-profit theatre
Taxes: I don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means
04.21.12 | Permalink | 7 CommentsI get it. Taxes are a necessary part of civic life. But what some of our civic officials don’t seem to always get is that taxes don’t always guarantee the revenue they’re hoping to make. Where is all this coming from? Well, as of Friday afternoon an urgent call went out to California theatre artists. [...]
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#tawg, advocacy, artistic home, collaboration, neverbedark, talk about what's good, the future, theatrical ecosystem
Bright Spots: Progress Lab 1422 (Vancouver)
04.09.12 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThere is a lot of conversation within the #2amt community about new models for making art, never being dark, and working collaboratively. Progress Lab in Vancouver is a prime example of all of these things done well. Progress Lab 1422 is home to four of Vancouver’s most interesting companies – Electric Company, Boca Del Lupo, [...]
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#2amt, #2femt, advocacy, arts administration, audiences, board members, community, development, dramaturgy, festivals, ideas, mission, new play development, new plays, newplay, playwrights, producers, social profit, storytelling, the future, the process, Uncategorized
A Playwright’s Responsibility
03.31.12 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI’ve been thinking more and more about my responsibility as an artist. And just typing that feels a little weird—the idea that artists have responsibilities other than to their art. But our work does more than just sit there in our heads. It wanders out of our skulls and into the heads of other people, [...]
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advocacy, community, documentary theatre, ideas, journalism, playwrights, social profit, the process
Context is everything.
There are two kinds of light: the glow that illuminates and the glare that obscures. — James Thurber In the rush to parse statements and assign blame this weekend, it seems like we’re missing the point. This isn’t–or shouldn’t be–an attack on Mike Daisey’s art or his ability. What’s on the stage–and on the page, [...]
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#2amt, advocacy, audiences, collaboration, community, conversation starter, critics, education, ideas, mission, new play development, new plays, newplay, non-profit theatre, producers, public relations, rabble rousing, the future, theatrical ecosystem
Correlation: Biodiversity and Theatre
03.07.12 | Permalink | 5 CommentsBiodiversity is the practice of cultivating and sustaining a broad array of species in a given ecosystem. The opposite is monoculture. Monoculture is the practice of limiting species in a given ecosystem. Agriculturalists and eco-warriors promote biodiversity because they have found (and history has proven, see: Potato famine) the prevalence of a multitude of species [...]
