Playwriting

Independent producer Natalie Gershtein considers the playwright-producer relationship. Where she once thought that playwrights were waiting and hoping for a first production, she now comes across playwrights who want to hold out for a larger company.

Playwright Catherine Trieschmann discusses tracking her writing output as her daughter tracks her reading.

Part interview, part photo essay, part play excerpts, Rebecca Stevens goes in-depth with playwright Marcus Gardley on his two recent productions at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, Illinois. 

Playwright Kitty Felde discusses the challenges of producing her play The Luckiest Girl, which features the Dutch character Zwarte Piet.

Jonathan Mandell explores how several recent works on New York Stages portray history and the questions they raise. 

Brian Sonia-Wallace writes about his experience at the Latino/a Play Project at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Ruth Weiner and Meg Swanson, theatre practioners and scholars, talk to playwrights who have come through the Playwrights’ Center about their experiences.

Playwright Damon Falke discusses his process of listening when creating characters for his work.

Playwright Catherine Castellani responds to some of the outcry about the Jubilee proposal.

Abel Muñoz interviews Marisela Treviño Orta

Agnes Borinsky considers a framework for thinking about playwriting from the sentence up, rather than from the idea down, which offers an alternative to the infiltration of playwriting with market-based thinking.

Maria Enriquez interviews Emilio Rodriguez about his play Swimming While Drowning, incorporating spoken word poetry into his work, and the idea of being “Latino enough.”

In this first installment, playwright Audrey Cefaly discusses the significance of silence and subtext on the page and the stage. 

Emily Daly writes about being a Hyphenate—someone with multiple artistic identities.

Playwright Jennifer Berry describes her dual roles as a mother and a playwright, and how these roles influence each other.

Commons Producer Miranda Craigwell interviews Melinda Lopez about her experience as Playwright-in Residence at Huntington Theatre Company. 

Regina García interviews playwright Amparo Garcia-Crow about her musical on Gus Garcia, a Mexican-American civil rights leader.

Part three of Aphra Behn’s report from The Tenth Women Playwrights International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.