• DG Copyright Management (DGCM)
    The DG©M is an estate planning consultancy and intellectual property management program created by the Dramatists Guild of America to oversee the stewardship of your plays, songs and musicals.
    Benefit Type
    Estate Management
  • DG Guide for Dramatists: The Art of Negotiating Theatre Contracts

    We know it can feel daunting to negotiate with a producer, theatre, school, college, or university that wants to produce your play or musical.

    Benefit Type
    Contracts,
    Collaboration Tools
  • DG Inclusion Rider

    Free download for members and non-members. The first of its kind in the theatre industry, the Dramatists Guild Inclusion Rider is intended to be a model addendum that will enable you to ask

    Benefit Type
    Contracts,
    Collaboration Tools
  • Dramatists Play Service
    Active DG member save 10% on all Dramatists Play Service Acting Editions. Formed in 1936 by a number of prominent playwrights and theatre agents, Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (DPS) was created to foster national opportunities for playwrights by publishing affordable editions of their plays and handling the performance rights to these works.
    Benefit Type
    Discounts - Publishing
  • Find a Collaborator
    Theatre is undoubtedly a team sport. We're here to help you find great teammates. Whether it's someone with a different skill set - i.e., a librettist to your composer, a lyricist to your playwright - or maybe someone with a similar background, our service exists to help build lifelong creative partnerships.
    Benefit Type
    Collaboration Tools
  • Form of Commission Agreement for Plays and Musicals
    Agreement between a commissioning producer and author(s) to write and revise a play or musical.
    Benefit Type
    Contracts
  • Form of Licensing Agreement
    A basic license, it grants the rights for a producer to produce a production without granting the subsidiary rights or future options.
    Benefit Type
    Contracts
  • Form of Underlying Rights for Musicals
    Form of an option agreement used for an author to obtain the basic right to adapt a work as a musical from an existing work in which a second author holds copyright.
    Benefit Type
    Contracts
  • Form of Underlying Rights for Plays
    Form of an option agreement used for an author to obtain the basic right to adapt a work as a play from an existing work in which a second author holds copyright.
    Benefit Type
    Contracts
  • Live Stream Addendum
    To help you navigate new uses of your work, we offer you a model Livestream Addendum agreement to revise your prior agreements to include such “digital rights".
    Benefit Type
    Contracts