RIPP #44: PATRICK DOOLEY, FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, SHOTGUN PLAYERS
If you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here to get some context before reading. From PATRICK DOOLEY, FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, SHOTGUN...
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RIPP #45: DEEN KEEGAN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR. SOCIETY HILL PLAYHOUSE
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View ArticleRIPP #46: IN SUPPORT OF WOMEN’S WORK
From DEE JAE COX, CO-FOUNDER/PRESIDENT/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, LOS ANGELES WOMEN’S THEATRE PROJECT ( If you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here...
View ArticleRIPP #47: KYLE BASS, RESIDENT DRAMATURG, SYRACUSE STAGE AND AN IMPORTANT...
Well… it’s been a long time since I’ve written a RIPP post. (If you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here (the original idea) and here (the...
View ArticleRIPP #48: ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON, FOUNDER, ROSALIND PRODUCTIONS
As promised, another installment of RIPP. And, as always, if you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here (the original idea) and here (the...
View ArticleRIPP #49: FROM ROBYN FLATT, EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, DALLAS CHILDREN’S...
As always, if you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here (the original idea) and here (the evolution of that idea) to get some context before...
View ArticleRIPP #50: REDUCING THE CLUTTER: A COMPILATION POST
As I wind down the RIPP series in preparation for something different in the new year, I’m gathering together some of the shorter bits I have. Though shorter, I hope they are no less inspirational....
View ArticleRIPP #51: CYNDY MARION, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, WHITE HORSE THEATER
As always, if you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here (the original idea) and here (the evolution of that idea) to get some context before...
View ArticleFINAL RIPP POST #52: SEAN DANIELS, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MERRIMACK REPERTORY...
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#PLONY PROFILE #2: WILLIAM MISSOURI DOWNS, MIDDLE-OF-NOWHERE, WYOMING
What is a #PLONY? Find out here, and also read an explanation as to why I’m writing a series of #PLONY Profiles. Here are my two encounters with William Missouri Downs prior to doing this...
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#PLONY PROFILE #3: LAUREN GUNDERSON, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
While a New York playwright is a New York playwright, there are many stripes of #PLONY. Lauren Gunderson lives in San Francisco, a thriving theater arena and new play incubator to be sure, but not...
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#PLONY PROFILE #4: MICHAEL MCKEEVER, DAVIE, FLORIDA
What is a #PLONY? Find out here, and also read an explanation as to why I’m writing a series of #PLONY Profiles. In June, at the CityWrights Conference in Miami, Dramatists Guild Western Florida...
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#PLONY PROFILE #5: EM LEWIS, MONITOR, OREGON
Full disclosure: I’ve slept with E. M. Lewis. But long before we triple-bunked at the 2013 Dramatists Guild Conference (she’s the former New Jersey rep), she’d been a role model to me for her work,...
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#PLONY PROFILE #6: ADITI BRENNAN KAPIL, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
. Aditi Brennan Kapil has a resume full of names equated with playwright excellence: Lark, McKnight, Jerome, Mellon, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, New Dramatists, NNPN, and more. But aside from the...
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#PLONY PROFILE #7: DON ZOLIDIS, CEDAR PARK, TEXAS
I’ve never met Don Zolidis in person, but through interaction on the Official Playwrights of Facebook, I knew he was a #PLONY I wanted to feature. Insanely prolific—he has published 85 YA plays...
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#365GRATEFULPLAYWRIGHT: A YEAR OF WHAT MAKES IT ALL WORTHWHILE NOVEMBER/PART TWO
Gratitude journals and their more public cousins—gratitude Facebook posts—have become mindful ways to connect with what is good in our lives. I’ve never done one, but it occurred to me a while back...
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#PLONY PROFILE #8: CATHERINE TRIESCHMANN, HAYS, KANSAS
When I first started the #PLONY interviews, I had this notion that, after a while, they’d all start to sound the same. But eight interviews in, I’ve been consistently amazed at how very different...
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#365GRATEFULPLAYWRIGHT: A YEAR OF WHAT MAKES IT ALL WORTHWHILE DECEMBER/PART ONE
Gratitude journals and their more public cousins—gratitude Facebook posts—have become mindful ways to connect with what is good in our lives. I’ve never done one, but it occurred to me a while back...
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#PLONY PROFILE #9: TOPHER PAYNE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Last week, I marveled at how different every #PLONY’s journey has been; make that triple for Topher Payne. You know how when an actor finally breaks through and everybody asks “Where has he been?”...
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TRADE A PLAY TUESDAY (#TAPT) TURNS TWO! (Read and share these awesome...
(If you don’t know what TRADE A PLAY TUESDAY is, please click here to read the guidelines and learn how to participate.) This week, TRADE A PLAY TUESDAY (TAPT) celebrates its two-year anniversary....
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