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advocacy, collaboration, community, conversation starter, designers, ideas, major regional theatre, marketing, mission, new play development, newplaytv, non-profit theatre, p.r., partnerships, playwrights, rabble rousing, social media, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Everything But
11.09.11 | Permalink | 6 CommentsOver the weekend, @NewPlayTV streamed three interesting, presumably unrelated talks. The first was from Steppenwolf’s First Look Festival, titled How to engage 21st Century Audiences for New Plays, followed an hour later by one from the PlayFest at Orlando Shakespeare Theater on How to Make a Living as a Playwright? Monday night’s was from New [...]
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advocacy, alternatives, conversation starter, directors, playwrights, theatrical ecosystem
Can I come out already?
11.09.11 | Permalink | 11 CommentsA conversation broke out on Twitter earlier this week, in response to a blog post (is that a squirrel chasing its own tail I see before me?), which led me here, to a small beer of a rant about an excrescence of language. I speak of the dreaded appellation ‘emerging’ as it gets affixed to [...]
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community, development, festivals, locavore, new play development, new plays, playwrights, talk about what's good, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
Greeks & Geeks
Orion as a cop on the mean streets of 1970s San Francisco. Hera as the lady of a country estate in Victorian England. Chronus as an Arizona Republican politician debating whether to align himself with the Tea Party. These are some of the dozens of creative reinterpretations of Greek mythology that, Athena-like, have sprung from [...]
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directors, dramaturgy, history, new play development, playwrights, the process
Divining “The Diviners”
10.02.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsWhen Jim Leonard was an English major at Hanover College in the late seventies, where I was running a one man theatre department, he responded to a request I issued for “extras” to swell a scene in a play I was staging. He had one line and seemed to be well prepared to say that [...]
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actors, directors, playwrights, the process
I know what it’s like to have failed, baby
09.30.11 | Permalink | 15 Comments“There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments, but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.” ― Anton Chekhov Over nearly twenty years of striving, struggling and occasionally [...]
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crowdsourcing, ideas, playwrights, the process
What Are Your Playwright Best Practices?
09.22.11 | Permalink | 7 Comments“…being a playwright is hard. One of my profs once said to me you have to work hard at it for at least 10 years before you start to see any movement.” –Advice For Playwrights Starting Out by Adam Szymkowicz I read that bit of insight when I was starting out in this genre and [...]
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audiences, collaboration, corporate sponsors, designers, development, devised work, directors, dramaturgy, funding and support, ideas, new plays, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting, producers, the process
Devised Theatre: Transitioning to Production
Previously in this column: The members of Bright Alchemy Theatre, a very young devised theatre company based in Washington, DC, have spent the last nine months working on its new project which began with the question: Why do we as a species feel the need to tell stories about our own destruction? This weekend, for [...]
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journalism, new plays, non-profit theatre, playwrights, public relations
The Think Method
Alright, I’ve had it and I’m not keeping it to myself anymore. It seems that not a day goes by that a news item appears one place or another announcing that someone famous is considering/acquiring rights/contemplating/dreaming about creating a Broadway show or being on Broadway. Yesterday it was Kara DioGuardi saying she was thinking about [...]
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collaboration, playwrights, rabble rousing, the process
For Consideration: A Response To A Critique Found In An Essay On Theatricality
08.24.11 | Permalink | 8 CommentsI’ve been trying to fully digest the recent HowlRound post On Theatricality by Lydia Stryk. With a slew of comments (15 at my last count), it’s generated quite a bit of conversation. From the get go this blog post got stuck in my craw. I’m not the only one. Playwright JC Lee took issue with [...]
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collaboration, development, ideas, new plays, partnerships, playwrights, producers, the future, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Roll On.
Roll On, Strange Little Plays. Roll On. I will start off saying this: rolling world premieres should be the ONLY way plays premiere. With consecutive and distinct productions a new play gets the essential time and community to mature rapidly, thoroughly, and cradled by friendly forces. Awww. A play becomes itself in production, less so [...]
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conversation starter, playwrights, the process
When Writer’s Block Isn’t Writer’s Block
07.29.11 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI am not blocked, I write in the text window. This is not block. But it had been months, it seemed. It had been years, been centuries. Worse than that; it had been minutes, bound fast to the bottom of the hourglass, each grain landing square on the bridge of the nose and bouncing off [...]
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festivals, new plays, playwrights, theatre festivals
2011 Bay Area Playwrights Festival: Dinner With Dramaturgs
When I was asked to blog the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) I immediately agreed to take on the task, but as the festival neared I began to wonder what exactly I would write about. I’m sure many in the 2AMt community have attended and participated in new work festivals like BAPF, so giving a [...]
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