Playwriting

Tim Sanford and Dan LeFranc discuss their origins as artistic collaborators and their reasons for sharing work.

Miriam Weisfeld and Robert O'Hara express the mutual benefits of their collaboration through the Playwright Residency.

Michelle Hensley and Kira Obolensky discuss their shared joy in collaborating at Ten Thousand Things.

Bill Rauch and Luis Alfaro talk about their connection to each other's work and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Playwright Lia Romeo discusses the innovative approaches two theatre companies have taken to incorporate technology into the audience experience of her play Connected.

Playwright David Copelin explores the idea of cultural appropriation versus misappropriation, and asks if playwrights should limit themselves in terms of what kind of characters they write.

David Dudley on The Goodman Theatre production of José Rivera’s Another Word for Beauty, directed by Steve Cosson in Chicago, Illinois.

Melissa Bergstrom and Kate Marple share their process of creating the documentary theatre piece Big Work.

Chris Casquilho interviews playwright Elaine Avila about her background, career, and theatre family.

Rikki Elizabeth Stinnette shares her experience of writing The Screenwriters for both film and the stage.

Ira Gamerman reports on Australian playwright David Finnigan's new play Kill Climate Deniers that has been funded through an arts grant from the Australian government and called out as a waste of government arts spending although it hasn’t premeried yet.

Mya Kagan explores the tradition of female writers using male or ambiguous pen names, and questions whether or not doing so is an empowering choice.

Playwright Alexa Derman writes about the dual pressures college-aged artists feel to both focus on their education and achieve professional success before they age out of the “emerging” classification.

Playwright Andrea Lepcio shares her experiences writing two different non-fiction scripts and offers advice for the process. 

Playwright MJ Halberstadt writes about different ways playwrights can address diverse representation in their scripts.

Translator Henning Bochert talks with playwright Andrea Stolowitz who was recently in residence in Berlin at the English Theatre Berlin.

Playwright Damon Falke discusses his play Laura, or Scenes from a Common World and how “Apollo and Daphne” from Ovid’s Metamorphoses inspired his work.

Playwright Donna Hoke discusses her play The Way It Is, which includes the rape of a male character, and the response she got from readers.

Playwright Pat Gabridge describes the experience of seeing the same production of his play in Massachusetts and Maryland.