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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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Tuesday 2 July 2013
New York, NY, United States

New Dramatists in New York City presented Resident Playwrights Admissions Town Hall Meeting livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 2 July 2013 at 1 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 3 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 4 p.m. EDT (New York).

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Essay
28 June 2013

Jeremy Stoller interviews Vicki Strioch, President of LMDA.

Event banner ad for Sixteen Going On Seventeen at Joe's Pub.
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Monday 24 June 2013
New York, NY, United States

2g presents Sixteen Going on Seventeen at Joe’s Pub celebrating the 2012-13 season and introducing its commissioned writers, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 24 June 2013 at 4 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 6 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EDT (New York).

Citywrights banner.
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Thursday 20 June to Saturday 22 June 2013.
Miami, FL, United States

City Theatre in Miami, Florida hosted CityWrights 2013—CityWrights: A Professional Weekend for Playwrights livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 20 June to Saturday 22 June 2013.

Teaser poster for Watch Me Work, which features Suzan-Lori Parks leaning an arm against a bench.
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A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 19 June 2013
New York, NY, United States

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed Watch Me Work from The Public Theater in New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 19 June 2013 at 2 p.m. PST (Vancouver, UTC -8) / 4 p.m. CST (Austin, UTC -6) / 5 p.m. EST (Montréal, UTC -5) / 10 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 23:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).

A still from a production of A Murder of Crows.
Essay
19 June 2013

Natasha Lee Martin reached out to the playwright, Mac Wellman, in a series of interviews to get his take on re-envisioning and modernizing his play A Murder of Crows through the use of interactive design technology.

Teaser poster for Watch Me Work, which features Suzan-Lori Parks leaning an arm against a bench.
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A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday, June 12 2013
New York, NY, United States

You’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater forWatch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project.

The eleventh performance in this series happens on Wednesday, June 12 at 2pm PDT (San Francisco) / 4pm CDT (Austin) / 5pm EDT (New York) / 21:00 GMT / 10pm BST (London). View a conversion into your local time.

A play formatting template.
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Script Formatting and Twitter

9 June 2013

Lisa Leaverton reflects on facilitating a Twitter conversation on the effects of script formatting within the theatre industry.

Portrait of Carlos Murillo.
Essay
7 June 2013

Anne García-Romero and Alice Tuan interview Carlos Murillo about his exploration of art and playwriting. Murillo questions how storytelling and technology will merge together.

Essay
6 June 2013

Anne García-Romero and Alice Tuan interview Brooke Berman to find that academia helped Berman find the backbone to advocate for her work.

Teaser poster for Watch Me Work, which features Suzan-Lori Parks leaning an arm against a bench.
Video

A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 5 June 2013
New York, NY, United States

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed Watch Me Work from The Public Theater in New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 5 June 2013 at 2 p.m. PST (Vancouver, UTC -8) / 4 p.m. CST (Austin, UTC -6) / 5 p.m. EST (Montréal, UTC -5) / 10 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 23:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1)

 

A burst of colorful powder on a dark background.
Essay
5 June 2013

Deborah Stein talks teaching as a creative process and shares a self-created exercise purposed to inspire collaboration among her students.

Portrait of Kristina Wong.
Essay
4 June 2013

Anne García-Romero and Alice Tuan interview Kristina Wong about her “trial by fire” playwriting. Wong’s passionate about theatre that cannot be matched by a camera.

Portrait of Daniel Alexander Jones.
Essay
3 June 2013

Daniel Alexander Jones discusses the art of learning from mentors and value of learning the craft of playwriting.

A messy writer's desk with a journal and a typewriter.
Essay
2 June 2013

Anne García-Romero and Alice Tuan shed wisdom on teaching playwriting and offer their own exercises.

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The Road to New Writing

31 May 2013

Holly Derr reports from LA Stage Day, where a lack of female playwrights demonstrates a larger problem: if LA has so many female writers, then how come none of them are getting produced?

Teaser poster for Watch Me Work, which features Suzan-Lori Parks leaning an arm against a bench.
Video

A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 29 May 2013
New York, NY, United States

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed Watch Me Work from The Public Theater in New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 29 May 2013 at 2 p.m. PST (Vancouver, UTC -8) / 4 p.m. CST (Austin, UTC -6) / 5 p.m. EST (Montréal, UTC -5) / 10 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 23:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).

 

Tiger Woods celebrating his win at the U.S. Open.
Essay
29 May 2013

Alex Lewin reflects on grappling with rejection as an artist.

Teaser poster for Watch Me Work, which features Suzan-Lori Parks leaning an arm against a bench.
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A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 22 May 2013
New York, NY, United States

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed Watch Me Work from The Public Theater in New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 22 May 2013 at 2 p.m. PST (Vancouver, UTC -8) / 4 p.m. CST (Austin, UTC -6) / 5 p.m. EST (Montréal, UTC -5) / 10 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 23:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1)

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Tuesday 21 May 2013 
New York, NY, United States

Dramatists Guild of America presented Social Media from the Playwright’s Perspective livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 21 May 2013 at 2:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 4:30 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 5:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 21:30 GMT / 10:30 p.m. BST (London). View the conversion into your local time here.

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christopher oscar peña chats about writing race with A. Rey Pamatmat

19 May 2013

christopher oscar peña and A. Rey Pamatmat talk about writing race in plays.

Teaser poster for Watch Me Work, which features Suzan-Lori Parks leaning an arm against a bench.
Video

A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 15 May 2013
New York, NY, United States

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed Watch Me Work from The Public Theater in New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 15 May 2013 at 2 p.m. PST (Vancouver, UTC -8) / 4 p.m. CST (Austin, UTC -6) / 5 p.m. EST (Montréal, UTC -5) / 10 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 23:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1

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Saturday 11 May 2013
Sarasota, FL, United States

Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota presented the annual Young Playwrights Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 11 May beginning at 7 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 9 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 10 a.m. EDT (New York) / 14:00 GMT / 3 p.m. BST (London). ​

Essay
7 May 2013

Alicia Anabel Santos contributes to our series with League of Professional Theatre Women with a blog about founding the NYC Latina Writers Group.

A knight slaying a dragon.
Essay
6 May 2013

Kristine M. Reyes writes about the loneliness of being a playwriting... and the saving grace of having other writers to help slay one's inner dragons.

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