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Thursday, October 18, 2012

The David Dower Friday Phone Call # 48: Quita Sullivan of the National Theater Project, New England Foundation for the Arts by Howlround

Today there’s a bit of a reversal on the David Dower Friday Phone Call. Y’all already know that I don’t even record them on Friday’s, generally. And today, I am not e…

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A Craft Workshop Livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV: "Improvising Your Play with Jeffrey Sweet" at Dramatists Guild on Tues, Oct 23 by HowlRound

Watch this workshop live on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info on Tuesday, October 23 at 2:30pm PDT (San Francisco)/ 4:30pm CDT (Chicago)/ 5:30pm EDT (New York)/ 21:30 GMT / 10:30pm BST (Londo…

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Conceptual Artist duo Sean Fletcher & Isabel Reichert present "The Artist is Elsewhere" Livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV Fri-Sat Oct 19-20 by HowlRound

Watch the livestreaming performance on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info on Friday, October 19 at 8pm PDT (San Francisco)/ 11pm EDT (New York), (Saturday, October 20 at 03:00 GMT / 12pm JST (…

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Interview with Alison Carey & UNIVERSES by Quita Sullivan by HowlRound

One of the important pieces of learning from the National Theater Pilot has been the role of developmental partners on the shape and success of productions. Quita Sullivan (NEFA's National T…

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Panel Discussion: "A Culture for New Work" Livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV from The Playwrights' Center"Sun, Oct 21 by HowlRound

A Culture for New Work This is a panel discussion produced and livestreamed on #NEWPLAY TV by The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis as a part of PlayLabs, their national festival of n…

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Ownership Morphing into Investment by Diane Rodriguez by HowlRound

The last five years have been about letting go of some new work development assumptions. One primary assumption is that new work in regional/LORT theaters is only about developing single aut…

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Growing a Living Culture by Matthew Glassman by HowlRound

I was a young father living in Boston over a barbershop called Jumbo's. I was a full-time substitute teacher at an elementary school by day and a fancy waiter by night. I moonlit as a playwr…

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Join us for a Boston Potluck on Monday, October 22! by HowlRound

In honor of the Boston City Series running on HowlRound next week, the Center for the Theater Commons is hosting a potluck for the Boston theater community! Join Polly & Jamie (and their…

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Monday, October 15, 2012

In the Intersection: Partnerships in the New Play Sector by Diane Ragsdale by HowlRound

In November 2011, twenty-five theater professionals gathered in Washington, DC to discuss nonprofit and commercial collaborations aimed at the development of new theatrical work. In spirit (…

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Nimble Funding for Nimble Theater, or Yes, It's More Than the Northeast by Rebecca Blunk by HowlRound

NEFA, as a nimble New England-based regional arts organization working to connect extraordinary artists and communities, also serves the region with national and international programs. For …

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The New Play Map Scavenger Hunt on Facebook Starts Now! Become a Beta Tester This Week Only by HowlRound

Care to win an awesome prize from the HowlRound crew while helping us beta test the latest Map iteration? Participate in the New Play Map Scavenger Hunt!  Three winners will be announced …

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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Lessons from the Road: 7 Theaters, 17 Military Bases, 8 Hospitals, and 4 Conferences Later, How a Girl Fell in Love with Touring by KJ Sanchez by HowlRound

In October of 2010 we were in tech for ReEntry at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE when I got the great news that American Records and ReEntry would be one of six participants in the New England Foun…

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Friday, October 12, 2012

The Hummingbirds: The Internationalists World Tour"Mexico City, Mexico by Garret Jon Groenveld by HowlRound

My play The Hummingbirds won the Internationalists Global Playwriting Contest. The award grants at least six different presentations in six different countries over the course of th…

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

The David Dower Friday Phone Call # 47: Jocelyn Prince, Connectivity Director at Woolly Mammoth by Howlround

This conversation with Jocelyn Prince, Connectivity Director at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in DC, epitomizes what I was trying to articulate in my recent HowlRound post and the conver…

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

How to Build Gender Parity Initiatives and Influence Theater by Laura A. Shamas by HowlRound

The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative is a grassroots advocacy group of women and men whose mission is to promote female theater artists in LA and beyond. We've been around for two a…

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Build with Us: New Play Map Version 4"Update # 3 by HowlRound

A treasure trove of the new work community’s data has been uncovered in this third development week. We released a set of features that displays every relationship between organization…

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Monday, October 8, 2012

13P: Why Implode? by Rob Handel by HowlRound

The documentary film A People's History of 13P will soon be available on our website. It’s intended to benefit future do-it-yourselfers who seek to take their artistic fates into their…

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Twitter Conversation using #newplay on Thursday, Oct. 11: 13P & Alternative Producing Models by HowlRound

Join us every Thursday at 18:00 GMT / 7pm BST / 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT / 11am PDT for the Weekly Howl, an open discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that hap…

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Sunday, October 7, 2012

The Finite Animal: 13P's End Days by Maria Goyanes by HowlRound

Since before our implosion commenced with the closing night of Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl (p#13), the staff and playwrights of 13P have been fully engaged in the company having a kind of …

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DIY: How to Set Up a Home Recording Studio"Livestreaming Seminar on #NEWPLAY TV Thurs, Oct 11 from The Dramatists Guild by HowlRound

From his home studio in Brooklyn, New York"songwriter and recording producer Felix McTeigue will conduct this practical, do-it-yourself seminar on how to set up a home recording studio. He w…

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Saturday, October 6, 2012

Holler: If You Can Make It Here… by HowlRound

Dear Holler readers, Thank you for all your excitement and support for this new column! As you know, every month I will respond to your questions about any and all things personal/profession…

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Towards A Commons: The Rural Arts and Culture Working Group by Matthew Fluharty by HowlRound

On an afternoon in early August, forty people kicked a soccer ball across a field in central Massachusetts. Led by Carlos Uriona of Double Edge Theatre, we kept moving in an improvised swarm…

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Friday, October 5, 2012

The Northern Lakes Center for the Arts and the Rural Arts Management (RAM) Institute by LaMoine MacLaughlin by HowlRound

I just turned se…seven…seventy years old. There"I said it. I got it out. But I am not retired, because I still find every minute of every hour of every day as interesting and as exciting…

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

The David Dower Friday Phone Call # 46: Noah Siegler, Artistic Director of StageNorth in Washburn, Wisconsin by Howlround

Today my guest is Noah Siegler, who is the artistic director of StageNorth in Washburn, Wisconsin. There is such fresh air in this discussion"around the ways StageNorth connects with its nei…

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Celebrating the New/Old Work of Community Arts Development In Rural/Small Communities in the United States by Patrick Overton by HowlRound

It is well known that rural communities today face many challenges, such as declining and aging populations, youth retention, limited economic and social opportunities, depleting natural res…

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Performance in the Fields: Farming as Artistic Practice by Nikiko Masumoto by HowlRound

The borders between farming and performance art are wonderfully blurry for me. Actually, I think we are better farmers when we approach agriculture through the arts because we can engage our…

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Toward a Rural Arts Education by Scott Walters by HowlRound

About one-hundred years ago, George Pierce Baker, then a professor in the English Department at Harvard University, helped integrate theater production into the university first by creating …

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Build with Us: New Play Map Version 4"Update # 2 by HowlRound

Q: What does a “knowledge commons” look like? A: Here’s an example. Q: How is the content and data produced? A: By the community of users. “Community-sourcing” …

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Monday, October 1, 2012

Abundance and Transformation by Donna Neuwirth by HowlRound

Dedicated to integrating culture and agriculture, the Wormfarm Institute is an evolving laboratory of the arts and ecology and fertile ground for creative work. Planting a seed, cultivating,…

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Twitter Conversation using #newplay on Thursday, Oct. 4: Arts in Rural Communities by HowlRound

Join us every Thursday at 18:00 GMT / 7pm BST / 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT / 11am PDT for the Weekly Howl, an open discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happen…

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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Rural Theater in a Democracy by Dudley Cocke by HowlRound

We know that, in the aggregate, incomes and life expectancies in rural America are significantly lower; infant mortality rates and drug abuse significantly higher. Presently there is insuffi…

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