Featured Contributors, January/February 2020
A look at a new kind of graduate training, and at one versatile artist who’s taken the plunge.
All Stories About Playwriting
Dramatists Guild Reveals New Playwriting Initiative
The new ‘End of Play’ program aims to encourage playwrights to create new works in collaboration with communities in the month of March.
What Can Be Taught, What Must Be Learned
As the walls among mediums begin to tumble, so too the boundaries separating training programs.
MFA or the Highway?
7 playwrights who’ve honed their craft without the coveted degree tell how their roads diverged.
A B-Boy at Yale
Rudi Goblen, break-dancing champ turned playwright, enters a school that has done its own share of learning.
What Is the Question?
Watching and helping John Guare build his plays inspired his erstwhile assistant to do the same.
Julia Jarcho Appointed Head of MFA Playwriting at Brown
The downtown playwright and theatremaker talks about her aesthetic and DIY work ethic, and how much of each she’ll bring to her new post.
Adrienne Kennedy: A Liberating Beacon
Colleagues and former students of the playwright share how she helped shape their lives and work.
Introducing a New/Old Podcast: The Subtext
Introducing a new podcast to American Theatre’s network: the Subtext, where playwright Brian James Polak interviews playwrights about what makes them tick.
Making Plays and Friends at Kenyon Playwrights Conference
Writing is a solitary pursuit, but not for a week each year on this idyllic Midwestern campus.