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This is a repository of written content, sorted by most recent to oldest. Enjoy!

A play formatting template.
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Script Formatting and Twitter

9 June 2013

Lisa Leaverton reflects on facilitating a Twitter conversation on the effects of script formatting within the theatre industry.

A man participating in Hidden Stories.
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Ant Hampton/Tim Etchells’ The Quiet Volume and Begat Theater’s Hidden Stories

8 June 2013

Bertie Ferdman talks about The Quiet Volume and Hidden Stories, two interdisciplinary works that challenge audiences perceptions of time and space.

Portrait of Carlos Murillo.
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7 June 2013

Anne García-Romero and Alice Tuan interview Carlos Murillo about his exploration of art and playwriting. Murillo questions how storytelling and technology will merge together.

A graph with two columns.
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7 June 2013

Clayton Lord shares insight on the value of diversifying theatre institutions.

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6 June 2013

Anne García-Romero and Alice Tuan interview Brooke Berman to find that academia helped Berman find the backbone to advocate for her work.

A still from A Public Reading Of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney.
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6 June 2013

W.M. Akers examines immortality in Lucas Hnath's A Public Reading Of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, questioning can our creations keep us here after we have past?

A burst of colorful powder on a dark background.
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5 June 2013

Deborah Stein talks teaching as a creative process and shares a self-created exercise purposed to inspire collaboration among her students.

Portrait of Kristina Wong.
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4 June 2013

Anne García-Romero and Alice Tuan interview Kristina Wong about her “trial by fire” playwriting. Wong’s passionate about theatre that cannot be matched by a camera.

Portrait of Daniel Alexander Jones.
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3 June 2013

Daniel Alexander Jones discusses the art of learning from mentors and value of learning the craft of playwriting.

A messy writer's desk with a journal and a typewriter.
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2 June 2013

Anne García-Romero and Alice Tuan shed wisdom on teaching playwriting and offer their own exercises.

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