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TOC - The Coping Issue

Dramatist Guild of America
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Editor’s Notes on The Coping Issue
  • Joey Stocks
  • and Michele Lowe
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Dear Dramatist: November/December 2019
  • David Guaspari
  • and Alan Bergman
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Guild News for the Coping Issue
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Bess Wohl: Ten Questions
  • Bess Wohl
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The Craft: Scott Bradley
  • Scott Bradley
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Perseverance
  • Michele Lowe,
  • Lynn Ahrens,
  • Michael R. Jackson,
  • and Mfoniso Udofia
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Coping with Isolation
  • T. Carlis Roberts,
  • Jamil Khoury,
  • Kathleen Coudle-king,
  • and Cameron Michael Fehring
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The Rejection Carnival
  • Sarah Rebell
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Coping with Rejection
  • Gretchen Suárez-Peña,
  • Adam Kraar,
  • Carrie Printz,
  • Kenyon Brown,
  • Pandora Scooter,
  • and Jerome Joseph Gentes
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Coping with Inertia
  • Joey Stocks
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What is your Routine?
  • R. Eugene Jackson,
  • Deja Jenkins,
  • and Mark Landon Smith
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Coping and Writing: Making Sense Out of the World
  • Lawson Caldwell,
  • Vibrina Coronado,
  • Nichole Palmer,
  • Steffi Rubin,
  • and Jacqueline E. Lawton
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Lighting the Path through Community
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Maestra
  • Jamie Maletz
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Out on the Fringe
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From the Desk of DGF - The Coping Issue
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