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Monday, August 12, 2013

Interview with Ana Margineanu & Tamilla Woodard by HowlRound

Long Distance Affair , a PopUP Theatrics international collaboration between playwrights, directors, and actors worldwide, is a project conceived by Ana Margineanu, developed with Tamilla Wo…

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Fast Food Dramaturgy by HowlRound

I have had the privilege to work on new play development, world premieres, and regional premieres as dramaturg at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. The Unicorn Theatre is a proud…

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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Broadening the Theatrical Palate: Rachel Chavkin and the TEAM by HowlRound

[T]he TEAM's work redefines what is theatrically possible and also provides an entry point to at least imagine a new and progressive future through the virtuosity of an artistic form. Perhap…

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Dispatches from LALA Land: The Evolution of Asian American Theater in Los Angeles by HowlRound

Los Angeles is a very naturally post-modern city. There's no center. There's disparate elements jutting up against each other. It's just so jagged and fragmented"even the start stop in the t…

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Reunion: The Before- and After-Life of a New Play by HowlRound

This is part four of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday . Chiori Miyagawa asked me to tea in the spring of 2011. She had an idea for a pla…

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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Choosing the Kiddie Table by HowlRound

Thanksgiving, the simplest and most wonderful of holidays, was complicated at Granny's house. I couldn't quite hang in through the premeal two-hand touch football game (my interest waned aft…

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Reunion: Why Do They Keep Coming Back? by HowlRound

This is part three of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday. Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrecti…

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Dispatches from LALA Land: On the Fringes of Hollywood by HowlRound

This year's Hollywood Fringe Festival "only the fourth in its history"featured two hundred and twelve separate productions in fifty different spaces for a total of more than one thousand per…

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Reunion: Fearlessness and Candor of Reunion Storytellers by HowlRound

This is part two of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday. In the generative stages of making a play, I imagine that a playwright might host …

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Live on HowlRound TV: Write with & Get Advice from Suzan-Lori Parks"The Public Theater, NYC"Wed, Aug 7 by HowlRound

You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which was livestreamed for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project at howlr…

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Live on HowlRound TV: Donnie Welch's "Leaving Dynamite""Workshop Performance, New Orleans"Sat, Aug 10 by HowlRound

Livestreaming from New Orleans, Louisiana, slam poet Donnie Welch will be presenting a workshop performance of Leaving Dynamite "a new, original piece of slam poetry/monologue theater explor…

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Monday, August 5, 2013

Reunion: Hey it's me. Haven't heard from you and it's been two days… by HowlRound

This is part one of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday. Last summer I had a happy reunion with an old friend. Mia Yoo, Artistic Director o…

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Weekly Howl on Twitter hashtag #newplay: Collecting Your Conversation Topics by HowlRound

The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* For the next …

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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Homer's Trojan War on Boston Stages by HowlRound

In March 2003, organizers in fifty-nine countries launched The Lysistrata Project : A Theatrical Act of Dissent. The event, which included 1,029 readings of Aristophanes' famed antiwar comed…

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Friday, August 2, 2013

(Re)search: Using People as Resources; or How I Learned to Love To Ask by HowlRound

(Re)Search is a six part series by Bree Windham a current graduate student in dramaturgy. It details her experiences as a young dramaturg navigating different resources and the ways she has …

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

7 Minutes in Heaven: No Holds Barred Content for the Theater by HowlRound

"You might leave feeling sweaty, manhandled, or in need of a shower""not necessarily encouraging words to hear from an MC, but certainly intriguing. 7 Minutes in Heaven is a reoccurring thea…

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Other Worlds Bleed Through by HowlRound

Emerging from the One Theatre World conference on plays for young audiences, this past May, well-blended with the International Children's Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, life was pretty wondro…

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Live on HowlRound TV: "Art & Survival" Convening at Double Edge Theatre, Ashfield, MA"Sat-Sun, Aug 3-4 by HowlRound

Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presents the Art and Survival Convening livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv on Saturda…

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Poetic Drama, Guerilla Opera by HowlRound

Giver of Light is a new opera. It is also a liberal adaptation of the life of the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi. It is set in a landscape that is a plastic and suburban generalization from …

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The Productions That Never Were by HowlRound

To date I've had fifty-four productions of my full length plays. But I've had nearly twenty-five productions that were planned and never happened. Some of these shows were supposed to happen…

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Live on HowlRound TV: Write with & Get Advice from Suzan-Lori Parks"The Public Theater, NYC"Wed, July 31 by HowlRound

You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which was livestreamed for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project at howlr…

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Monday, July 29, 2013

Stumbling Into Self-Dramaturgy: What My Plays Taught Me by HowlRound

I hadn't planned to self-dramaturg my entire collection of work. I certainly hadn't planned for the process to deeply impact the way I think about my writing going forward. But this is what …

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Weekly Howl on Twitter hashtag #newplay: Community, You're Curating This! Topic: TBD by you"Thurs, Aug 1 by HowlRound

The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* Join us Thurs…

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

The Theater of the Furrowed Brow by HowlRound

Tasked with creating the text and structure of the piece, I knew only that I was writing for a solo actor and a small company of dancers. … I quickly settled on Irma as our lead player. Se…

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Saturday, July 27, 2013

The Song's The Thing: Creating A Rock + Theater Collaboration by HowlRound

My sister and I are sitting in the Metreon movie complex in downtown San Francisco and the lights have just lowered to start the latest Bond movie, Skyfall . I'm there for, let's be honest, …

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Friday, July 26, 2013

Creating from the Vanguard: State vs. Zimmerman by HowlRound

This is a regular column featuring musings, observations, and strategies from the frontline of cultural theater-making in the 21st century. See the full column here . It's been two weeks sin…

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Is New York City part of America? Off-Broadway and the Regional Theater Tony Award by HowlRound

"New York is the capital of no known foreign country," Saul Bellow once said, a view that New Yorkers might hold as deeply as people in the rest of the United States, but for us it's a reaso…

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Live on HowlRound TV: The First Philadelphia One-Minute Play Festival, InterAct Theatre Company"Tues, July 30 by HowlRound

The One-Minute Play Festival & InterAct Theatre Company p resent The First Philadelphia One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV chan…

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

"Improvised Book Club" & Asking Your Audience to Do Homework by HowlRound

Longform improv is weird. Most audiences need a primer on what's happening before they fully absorb what the show is attempting to do"partially because the show is discovering what it is att…

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Live on HowlRound TV: KoFest: Story Slam"Sun, July 28 by HowlRound

The KoFest in Amherst, Massachusetts presents Story Slam livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv on Sunday, July 28 at 5pm PDT (Vancouver…

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Valuing the MFA by HowlRound

Our culture often has a negative view of the MFA degree. With no guaranteed return on investment and a high cost, many see it as a waste of time and money. One can write, act, direct, or dra…

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