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The Responsibility We Carry
by Madeline Easley
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A Lover's Guide to American Playwrights
Carlyle Brown
by Todd London
4 June 2018
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Parenting and Playwriting
Boundaries, Please
by Catherine Trieschmann
25 February 2017
A nativity scene.
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The Pageant, part II

5 January 2013

On this week's edition of Parenting & Playwriting with Catherine Trieschmann: an update on Catherine's Christmas pageant saga.

A disgruntled mother holds her child.
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School Jitters

22 September 2012

On this edition of Parenting & Playwriting: learning how to let go on the first day of school.

A landscape of a creek next to a rocky cliff.
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A Room with a View

18 August 2012

On this week's edition of Parenting & Playwriting with Catherine Trieschmann: what's a mom to do when they can't bring her kids with her on a retreat?

A cartoon spider hanging from a web.
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The Spider Outside Your Door

8 July 2012

On this edition of Parenting & Playwriting with Catherine Trieschmann: the appearance of one little spider can change one's views on writing and life.

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Packing for the Guilt Trip

17 June 2012

This post is the fifth column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwriting. In this edition, Catherine Trieschmann writes about the idea of working parent's guilt.

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What I did for Love

26 May 2012

Catherine Treischmann's Parenting & Playwriting series continues with a question about new play development: when you're offered out-of-town production and development oppurtunities, what do you do when you're the primary caregiver to small children?

Diane Keaton with a baby in a chair next to her.
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Having It All

28 April 2012

Catherine Trieschmann continues her column on parenting as a playwright with answering a reader's question regarding "having it all." Can anyone have it all? And who would you rather be – Diane Keaton or Sam Shepherd?

A laptop sits on a table in the dark.
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When do you write?

17 March 2012

In her latest installment, Catherine Trieschmann talks about finding time to write... when you're busy taking care of very tiny humans.

Multiple actors clutch a brightly lit woman onstage.
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18 September 2011

For Catherine Trieschmann, parenthood interrupted her playwriting process by taking up time that used to be spent daydreaming.

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Parenting & Playwriting

A series on balancing responsibilities as a working playwright and as a parent.

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