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Todd London

Author, If You See Him, Let Me Know

Todd London’s many books include two novels, If You See Him, Let Me Know and The World’s Room, and writings about the theatre: An Ideal TheaterOutrageous FortuneThe Importance of Staying Earnest15 Actors, 20 Years; This Is Not My Memoir, with Andre Gregory; The Artistic Home, and Zelda Fichandler’s The Long Revolution (editor). The inaugural recipient of Theatre Communications Group’s Visionary Leadership Award, a George Jean Nathan Award winner, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from DePaul University, Todd spent eighteen years as artistic director of New York’s New Dramatists. Former executive director of the University of Washington School of Drama and head of MFA Playwriting at the New School, he is founding director of The Third Bohemia retreat and director of the Legacy Playwrights Initiative and the Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows Program.  

Billboards light up and tourists walk in Times Square in New York City at dusk.
Essay

What Price Idealism, or Who You Gonna Dance With?

15 May 2013

Todd London shares why prioritizing the ideals of theatre companies—particularly not-for-profit theatre—is essential.

Portrait of Todd London.
Essay

One for All and All for One and Every Man for Himself

27 March 2013

Todd London's keynote address at the NoPassport Conference in New York City, March 1st 2013.

A portrait of Stephen Adly Guirgis
Essay

A Lover's Guide to American Playwrights

Stephen Adly Guirgis

6 December 2012

Todd London on playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis.

A portrait of Eisa Davis.
Essay

A Lover's Guide to American Playwrights

Eisa Davis

7 July 2012

Todd London on playwright, actress, singer-songwriter, ethnographer, and sometime-arts journalist Eisa Davis

Essay

Can a Solo Performer Act Alone?

15 April 2012

Todd Lincon reflects on the aftermath of the Mike Daisey scandal involving his one man show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and the resulting scandal.

Essay

A Lover's Guide to American Playwrights

Harvey Fierstein

5 April 2012

Todd London's series of playwright tributes continues with Harvey Fierstein.

Essay

In Search of the Artistic Home

13 January 2012

Kicking off our new series, Jamie Gahlon speaks with Todd London about what an artistic home means to him.

Lisa D'Amour, Melissa James Gibson, and Michael Steinberg at an awards ceremony.
Essay

A Lover's Guide to American Playwrights

Lisa D'Amour & Melissa James Gibson

21 November 2011
A portrait of playwright August Wilson.
Essay

A Lover’s Guide to American Playwrights

August Wilson

7 August 2011
Essay

A Lover's Guide to American Playwrights

Julie Taymor

15 May 2011

Todd London celebrates the vast scope of Julie Taymor's body of work which draws on influences from all over the world.

Edward Albee headshot.
Essay

A Lover's Guide to American Playwrights

Edward Albee

28 February 2011

In this installation of A Lover's Guide to American Playwrights, Todd London salutes Edward Albee.

Two actors, a man and a woman, sit on a couch admiring an object.
Essay

A Lover's Guide to American Playwrights

Horton Foote

23 January 2011

Todd London celebrates Horton Foote's body of work and the impact of memories on both his plays and his life.

A group of people stand on a balcony surrounded by protest signs.
Essay

Did Hungarian Theatre Kids Just Change the World?

11 May 2026

On 12 April 2026, Hungarians voted by overwhelming majority to end authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s reign. Todd London celebrates the theatre kids who helped make that happen and offers ten things we can learn from the 2020 protest movement at the University of Theater and Film Arts (SZFE).

Seven masked performers in semi-formal attire stand in front of a red background.
Series

A Lover's Guide to American Playwrights

An ongoing series of tributes to contemporary playwrights.

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