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An Exercise in Time
Episode Six of Page as Field
Monday 6 July 2026
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Exercising the Imagination
Episode Five of Page as Field
Monday 29 June 2026
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Collaborative Exercises in Readership
Episode Four of Page as Field
Monday 22 June 2026
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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 15 December 2025
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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An Anthology of Eight New Plays from Trans Playwrights

Sunday 14 December 2025
New York City

Hear directly from the creators about what inspired them to write the plays, the creative process in bringing them to life, how they fit into the contemporary play landscape, and what we love about them.

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Essay
10 December 2025

Iranian Girlfriend explores the complex relationship between fact and fiction—a dynamic that played out in its journey from autobiographical essay to autofictional play. Creator SB Tennent discusses the play’s origins, process, and ambitions with Georgia Evans.

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Podcast
9 December 2025

Ash Marinaccio and the 2024-2025 Civilians R&D Group discuss investigative theatre, how artists blend research, interviews, and emotional truth to create new work. They discuss new play development, ethics, community, and why “live bodies in a room” still matter.

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 1 December 2025
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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Amplifying Women’s Voices Globally

Saturday 22 November 2025

We explore Women Playwrights International (WPI) history, cross cultural collaboration, and global feminism.

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Essay
21 November 2025

Playwright Tomi Endter imagines a future fifty years from now when American theatre has finally centered Native voices. She looks back at how the industry transformed from exclusion to the celebration of Native stories and artists.

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Essay
20 November 2025

Madeline Easley details an experience working with the Wyandots of Kansas while writing a new play for Kansas City Repertory Theatre that touched on deep, nuanced, multi-governmental politics—and how that experience contrasts with her other experiences in the American theatre.

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 17 November 2025
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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Condé, Gonfier, Glissant

Monday 10 November 2025
New York City

An evening celebrating the life and work of three Caribbean writers. 

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 10 November 2025
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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Essay
3 November 2025

Murielle Borst-Tarrant asks herself why she’s still creating. Amid loss and chaos and life’s ongoing minor dramas, she returns over and over again to the work.

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Honoring Michael R. Jackson

Thursday 30 October 2025
New York City

The 2025 Edwin Booth Award honors a person, company, or organization whose work bridges professional and academic theatre. We seek to foreground the emerging/emergent as a product of resilience, reclamation, and urgency under contemporary and contemporaneous constraints. 

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Essay
16 October 2025

Pub theatres bring theatre to communities in the United Kingdom through the combined business model of a performance venue and pub. Sophie Pell, who both makes and watches pub theatre, details the considerable benefits of this performance model.

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 6 October 2025
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 29 September 2025
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 8 September 2025
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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Essay
4 September 2025

Several characters are played by one performer in I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan. In an analysis that spans from ancient Greece to contemporary Russia, Arseniy Fariatiev argues that the play does the opposite for the director, splitting directorial labor across several production roles.

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 11 August 2025
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 4 August 2025
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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Essay
24 July 2025

To Tell a Story About the Earth is part scripted play, part guided introduction to devising. The creative team reflects on their development process, which took them to Georgetown University for joyful, interdisciplinary co-creation at the crossroads of new play development, environmental studies, and local activism.

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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 14 July 2025
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

A promotional graphic for Watch Me Work.
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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 7 July 2025
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

A promotional graphic for Watch Me Work.
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A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 30 June 2025
New York City

Watch Me Work, facilitated by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a virtual communal work session for nurturing creativity. Hosted by the Public Theater, these Zoom and HowlRound livestream sessions are accessible worldwide, allowing participants to join from home, school, or anywhere with internet access.

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Podcast
24 June 2025

In this episode, hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley interview director and playwright Robert O’Hara about his approach to his craft, his experience as a Black artist in the theatre industry, and how he leans into discomfort.

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