Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts), and this month we have a very special episode for you.

To culminate our yearlong Theatre Futures series, supported by the Ford Foundation, for which we commissioned 16 essays from theatre workers and thinkers all over the U.S., we gathered four New York City-based theatre folks to help us envision a viable future for this art form. These panelists represent the four tentpoles of our Theatre Futures essay/provocations—institutions (business models & collaboration), workers (economic justice & labor), art (content & form), and audiences (audience & impact)—with full recognition that the boundaries among these categories are porous and the art and business and integrally connected and interdependent. Our panelists are:

Patricia McGregor, artistic director, New York Theatre Workshop; Jesse Jae Hoon, playwright and labor organizer; Lizzie Stern, literary director, Playwrights Horizons; and Deeksha Gaur, executive director, Theatre Development Fund. The moderator is American Theatre editor-in-chief Rob Weinert-Kendt. The video below was produced by Jordan Young, and shot and edited by Hank Allen.

You can download the episode here. If you have any feedback or suggestions for Offscript, please reach out to at@tcg.org.