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. 26 No. 3 Summer 2024 New Plays Current Issue Issue Archive The Plantation Known As The American Theatre Advocacy by Emmanuel Wilson Business and Career Where Can I Submit My New Work? National Reports A Dramatist’s Guide to Roanoke, Virginia by Deirdre Price Business and Career DG Bill of Rights 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 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 Industry News Announcing Nominees for 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards Advocacy Newsroom VIEW ALL 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 Summer 2024 Classes: Get Your Summer Body (Of Writing) Together! Chicago: Join Us For Advocacy Night on June 18 at The Understudy Dramatists Legal Defense Fund Offers Emergency Financial Support to the Censored Production Trans Student Actor Unjustly Barred from School Musical Inspires Nationwide Advocacy Business and Career VIEW ALL Why Billing Matters “Could I Buy You a Coffee...?”: How to Make, and Make the Most of, a Meeting With a Theatre Company What’s the Deal (Memo)? DG Glossary: World Premiere DG Bill of Rights Craft VIEW ALL Summer 2024 New Play Festivals by Joel Scoville, Melanie Payne, Karissa Murrell Myers, Weston Gaylord, and Jonathan Norton Summer 2024 The Future of New Work by Jordan K. Stovall Spring 2024 The Pivot Point: A Roundtable on Mentorship by Chisa Hutchinson, christopher oscar peña, Aurin Squire, Madhuri Shekar, and Cori Thomas Advocacy VIEW ALL Summer 2024 The Plantation Known As The American Theatre by Emmanuel Wilson Summer 2024 Room Enough by Azure D. Osborne-Lee Spring 2024 Maestra by the Numbers by Georgia Stitt Spring 2024 Immigrant Artists Deserve to be Free by Francisco Mendoza Spring 2024 Still the Last Taboo: Palestinian Stories in American Theatre by Samer Al-Saber National Reports VIEW ALL 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 Spring 2024 A Dramatist’s Guide to Denver/Boulder by Jeffrey Neuman Wisconsin Dramatists Retreat by Danielle Dresden Winter 2023 A Dramatist’s Guide to Columbus, Ohio by Michael London Aug/Sep 2023 Puerto Rico: 8,200 Reasons by Tere Martinez Aug/Sep 2023 Oregon Season in Review 2022-2023 by Lolly Ward 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 Summer 2024 Leonard Madrid: Ten Questions by Leonard Petronilo Madrid Why I Joined The Guild What the Guild Means to Me: John Weidman by John Weidman Vickie Ramirez: Why I Joined the Guild by Vickie Ramirez Chisa Hutchinson: Why I Joined the Guild by Chisa Hutchinson Op/Ed Bad Words and Good Theatre by Joseph Bardin Miracle of Miracles by Michele Lowe From the Desk of Jordan Stovall: Jubilee for a New Vision by Jordan K. Stovall
Free Articles New Play Conferences by Goldie Patrick, DeLanna Studi, Kevin Lawler, Adrian Centeno, Jeremy Cohen, and Melia Bensussen
Summer 2024 New Play Festivals by Joel Scoville, Melanie Payne, Karissa Murrell Myers, Weston Gaylord, and Jonathan Norton
Spring 2024 The Pivot Point: A Roundtable on Mentorship by Chisa Hutchinson, christopher oscar peña, Aurin Squire, Madhuri Shekar, and Cori Thomas