Archive Advertise Diary The Dramatist is the official journal of the Dramatists Guild of America, the professional organization of playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists. Vol. 27 No. 4 Autumn 2025 Courage Current Issue Issue Archive Why Billing Matters Business and Career Business and Career Between Rewrites and O-1 Renewals by Durra Leung Business and Career Attorneys Backstage: Pulling Back the Curtain on Copyright + Collaborations in Educational Institutions by Leesa Fenderson National Reports A Dramatist’s Guide to Austin by Christine Hoang Advocacy Immigrant Artists Deserve to be Free by Francisco Mendoza Advocacy Room Enough by Azure D. Osborne-Lee Free Articles New Play Conferences by Goldie Patrick, DeLanna Studi, Kevin Lawler, Adrian Centeno, Jeremy Cohen, and Melia Bensussen Industry News VIEW ALL Industry News Election Results: Dramatists Guild 2025 Council Industry News Honor Roll! Accepting Submissions for Third Annual Marjorie Bicknell Honor Roll! Honors Industry News Roger Q. Mason Awarded McKnight National Residency and Commission by Playwrights’ Center Industry News American Theatre Wing to Relaunch National Theatre Company Grants Program Industry News Great Plains Theatre Commons Announces 2024 Playwrights Industry News Announcing 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards Recipients Industry News Eboni Booth’s ‘Primary Trust’ Receives 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Industry News Lloyd Suh Receives 2024 Steinberg/ATCA Award Advocacy Newsroom VIEW ALL Career Alert: Concerns About Submission Opportunity at Bold Sunrise Theatre Action Alert: Oppose AI Moratorium in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act 2025 Council Election Results Statement on the Kennedy Center's Announced Cancellation of a Production Emmanuel Wilson Steps Down As Co-Executive Director Aug 26 Webinar: Incorporating for Theatre Writers - Essentials for LLCs, S Corps, and Sole Proprietorships Aug 1 Webinar: Artificial Intelligence in Theatre - Navigating Legal Considerations for Writers Philadelphia: Join Us For An Advocacy Session on July 27 at Free Library of Philadelphia Business and Career VIEW ALL DG Glossary: Defamation Attorneys Backstage: Pulling Back the Curtain on Copyright + Collaborations in Educational Institutions Between Rewrites and O-1 Renewals How To Avoid “Rent” Control: Protecting Your Copyright When Working with a Non-Authorial Collaborator DG Glossary: Trademark Craft VIEW ALL Autumn 2025 Not Just a Gig by Rhiana Yazzie and amelia french Summer 2025 Erlina Ortiz: Working with a Dramaturg by Erlina Ortiz Summer 2025 Diana Burbano: Working with a Dramaturg by Diana Burbano Advocacy VIEW ALL Autumn 2025 Lillian Hellman’s Code of Decency and the House Un-American Activities Committee by Carolyn Gage Summer 2025 From the Archives: A World Where Governments Fear the Word by Edward Albee Summer 2025 From the Archives: Day by Day by Christopher Durang Winter 2024 The Asian American Theatre Artists Collective by Christine Toy Johnson Autumn 2024 Enter the Good Ones: Theatres Doing Right by Their Dramatists by C. Quintana and Winter Miller National Reports VIEW ALL Autumn 2025 A Dramatist’s Guide to Austin by Christine Hoang Summer 2025 A Dramatist’s Guide to Tallahassee by Danielle Wirsansky Spring 2025 A Dramatist’s Guide to San Diego by Aleta Barthell Winter 2024 A Dramatist’s Guide to Tulsa by David Blakely Autumn 2024 A Dramatist's Guide to Seattle by Elizabeth Coplan Summer 2024 A Dramatist’s Guide to Roanoke, Virginia by Deirdre Price Summer 2024 A Dramatist’s Guide to Knoxville by Harrison Young Spring 2024 A Dramatist’s Guide to Santa Fe by Talia Pura Videos VIEW ALL Dramatist to Dramatist: Dominic D’Andrea, Ty Defoe, & Joann Yarrow on Native Theatre and Community Stories Dramatist to Dramatist: Kemp Powers interviewed by Larry Dean Harris Longstanding Collaborations, Part Two – The Charles Busch Edition Ten Questions Autumn 2025 Ankita Raturi: Ten Questions by Ankita Raturi Why I Joined The Guild Why Being a Guild Member Matters by Daniel Goldfarb What the Guild Means to Me: John Weidman by John Weidman Vickie Ramirez: Why I Joined the Guild by Vickie Ramirez Op/Ed Thanks, Tori by Reginald Lewis Bad Words and Good Theatre by Joseph Bardin Miracle of Miracles by Michele Lowe
Business and Career Attorneys Backstage: Pulling Back the Curtain on Copyright + Collaborations in Educational Institutions by Leesa Fenderson
Free Articles New Play Conferences by Goldie Patrick, DeLanna Studi, Kevin Lawler, Adrian Centeno, Jeremy Cohen, and Melia Bensussen
Autumn 2025 Lillian Hellman’s Code of Decency and the House Un-American Activities Committee by Carolyn Gage
Autumn 2024 Enter the Good Ones: Theatres Doing Right by Their Dramatists by C. Quintana and Winter Miller
