Playwriting

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.”

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.

Writer Sarah Rebell recaps her summer spent reading only plays written by women. 

Catherine Trieschmann writes about her first experience bringing her children to a production of one of her shows.

Jamie Gahlon interviews Mando Alvarado about the inspiration for his play Parachute Men, his writing process, and the challenges facing the American theatre.

Teresa Marrero talks with Matthew Paul Olmos about his play the living’life of the daughter mira, the difference between writing for film or television and theatre, and their shared California roots.

Caridad Svich on writing about the inescapable reality of climate change.

Playwright Jake Rosenberg explains how Postmodernist philosophy can inform the work of contemporary playwrights.

Playwright Sharmon Hilfinger discusses how she developed Artic Requiem: The Story of Kivalina with composer Joan McMillen.