HowlRound Theatre Commons is a free and open platform for theatremakers worldwide that amplifies progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitates connection between diverse practitioners.
The HowlRound team shares a primer on livestreaming, in the hopes that people will consider using HowlRound TV as an alternative or enhancement to in-person gatherings.
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Are You HowlRound's Next Communications Manager?
2 January 2020
We’re hiring a full-time Communications Manager! Consider join the HowlRound team—details about applying within.
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Happy New Year from HowlRound
Reflections on 2019
31 December 2019
Jamie Gahlon, director of HowlRound, reflects on the past year of conversations, convenings, livestreams, and more—all in the name of creating a more equitable, just, and progressive theatre field—and looks forward to 2020.
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HowlRound Twitter Chat
Theatre's Response to Global Colonization and Occupation
26 November 2019
Twitter
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Reimagining the Relationship Between Playwrights and Institutions
Announcing an Open Call for the Third Round of the National Playwright Residency Program
5 July 2019
Applications for the third round of the National Playwright Residency Program, an intervention into the traditional relationships between artists and institutions, are now live!
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Digital + Performance Convening
at the foldA Festival in Kingston, Ontario
12 June 2019
Kingston, Ontario At The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
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It Doesn't Have to be #MeToo
Progress of Education and Prevention in The Theatre
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Introducing Armando Huipe, Our New Latinx Theatre Commons Producer!
16 April 2019
Join us in welcoming Armando, our new Latinx Theatre Commons Producer!
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Introducing Jax Gil, Communications Manager!
8 April 2019
Join us in welcoming Jax, our new Communications Manager!
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Deaf Theatre Action Planning Session
at Emerson College in Boston, MA
Friday 15 March 2019 - Sunday 17 March 2019
Emerson College, Jackie Liebergott Black Box in the Paramount Theatre, Boston
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Introducing Dillon Yruegas, HowlRound Fellow!
28 February 2019
Join us in welcoming Dillon, the new HowlRound Fellow!
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Creating Work and Artistic Homes
Friday 26 January 2018
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We're Hiring a Communications Manager!
20 December 2018
Are you interested in working for HowlRound? We’re hiring a full-time Communications Manager—details about applying within.
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Are You The Next HowlRound Fellow?
7 November 2018
We're hiring for the next HowlRound Fellow! Could it be you? Applications close 31 December!
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I'm Tired of All This Drama!
A Gathering to Discuss Contemporary Comedy in the American Theatre
Wednesday 17 October - Thursday 18 October 2018
Emerson College, Boston, USA
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Theatre Criticism Now
Twitter Chat Archive 13 August 2018
9 August 2018
Announcing a #howlround twitter chat on the state of theatre criticism now on Monday 13 August at 4pmET.
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Theatre in the Age of Climate Change Convening
Emerson College
Friday 8 June to Sunday 10 June 2018
Boston, MA, United States
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Report on the National Playwright Residency Program
Emerson College
Tuesday 27 March 2018
Boston, MA, United States
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Introducing May, HowlRound Content Editor!
12 March 2018
HowlRound is thrilled to welcome May Antaki on board as our new Content Editor!
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We're Hiring an Editor!
21 January 2018
We're looking for an experienced editor with a theatre background to join our team!
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World Theatre Map 2.0 Launches! / Lancement de la Carte mondiale du théâtre 2.0 ! / ¡Se lanza el Mapa Mundial de Teatro 2.0!
28 November 2017
We’re excited to announce that the second beta version of The World Theatre Map is now available in French, Spanish, and English, and the software is now entirely available to the commons under an open source license.
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Announcing the HowlRound Challenge Convenings
4 October 2017
HowlRound announces the four selected convening proposals for the HowlRound Challenge, a new initiative to incubate ideas and seed action to make a better theatre and a better world.
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Introducing the World Theatre Map Ambassadors
14 July 2017
The World Theatre Map beta project has engaged its first cohort of twenty-eight World Theatre Map Ambassadors from twenty-four countries to direct community organizing, outreach, and feedback gathering.
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Introducing JD Stokely, HowlRound Fellow!
16 June 2017
Join us in welcoming Stokely, the new HowlRound Fellow!
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The HowlRound Challenge
An Open Call for Convening Proposals
12 April 2017
Through The HowlRound Challenge, we will produce and host up to five in-person convenings in Boston, from September 2017 to June 2019 that will incubate ideas and seed action to make a better theatre and a better world.
