Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will present a one-night-only reading of 8, a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, writte…
This week I talk to Tony Taccone, artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I’ve been in conversations with Tony over the last twenty years" he was an early mentor, an artistic …
FADE IN. That's how all of them start, the scripts I write for my LA projects. It's also how I've felt since moving from Chicago to Los Angeles. As if my life were a closed aperture with a r…
When I first moved to the new country, the language barrier was a hurdle I finessed by smiling or shaking my head, until a fabric store clerk cornered me and it took an excruciating moment t…
Picture this: It's the near future. Your candidate of choice has won the Presidency. As they stand before Congress for the State of the Union, he or she declares: "My fellow Americans, I sta…
The Ingram New Works Fellowship was created by Tennessee Rep co-founder Martha R. Ingram to provide an opportunity for theater artists to develop new theater works while in residency with Te…
The personal essay, “That Bitch, Corey Madden,” was first delivered at The Women Studies Seminar of the Huntington Library on May 12, 2012 in San Marino, California. http://hunti…
This post is the fourth column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwriting. Find the previous columns here. Here's what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions an…
A few months ago a play of mine, fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life premiered at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago as part of their Young Adults programming. It was the first play I've…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Ashley Forman continues this series. What is an artistic home? The di…
This time around I talk with Peter Brosius, Artistic Director of Children’s Theatre Company, in Minneapolis. Peter has got to be the prototype for that old energizer-bunny campaign"he …
Today I’m talking to Tony Graham, a UK Theater for Young Audiences director who was also recently a Fellow here. I have to admit that I have had very little direct experience with the …
Last Tuesday"using the Twitter hashtag “#newplay“"we discussed the topic of “Designers in New Play Development and Production” which was a highly-rated topic idea sug…
Theater for babies? Really? When I first learned of this sub-genre of the TYA field, I responded with the same healthy skepticism I suspect is shared by many theater practitioners, even thos…
I. The Perfect Audience Let’s you and I build the perfect audience for our new play. While we may differ on a few details, I’ll bet that our ideal audience would share some o…
When I first met with Seattle Children's Theatre a few years go to pitch adapting one of the American Girl stories, the artistic director seemed momentarily stunned by my choice. She expecte…
Playwrights Foundation presents Des Voix…Found in Translation: A Festival of Contemporary French Playwrights in Translation featuring plays by Marion Aubert, Nathalie Fillion, and Samu…
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin I have an imaginary goat named Valencia who loves Payday candy bars, …
Do you have a “tribe?” My first and most important tribe is a familial one, because I love these people and have crossed an ocean with these people and together we've settled in …
When I arrived, in 1998, to work at Children's Theatre Company, the largest children's theater in the United States, I knew very little about the field of Theater for Young Audiences. I arri…
Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder returns to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers' Project with a new play and a new kid. Follow Elyzabeth in the final installment of …
This trio"whose shows include The Book of Mormon (Bobby Lopez) and Next to Normal (Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey)"will discuss working in the musical theater today, from their days as classmates…
We at HowlRound want to know what you"the #newplay community on Twitter"want to discuss in this week's Weekly Howl. Be the community’s idea generator and submit and vote on yo…
Today I talk with Ilana Brownstein, known to #newplay followers as @bostonturgy. She’s the founder of the Playwrights’ Commons in Boston and we’re going to be very involved…
Jamie: What are the technical residencies at Z Space? And what made you start offering them? Lisa: Our technical residencies subsidize artists' use of our theater, lights, sound system, tech…