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. 4 Autumn 2024 New Musicals Current Issue Issue Archive Why Billing Matters Business and Career Ten Questions Betty Shamieh: Ten Questions by Betty Shamieh Business and Career DG Best Practices: Contests and Festivals Craft Spring 1967: So Which Comes First, the Words or the Music? by Sheldon Harnick 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 DG Best Practices: Contests and Festivals The Right to Publicity: An Evolution Best Practices for Authorial Billing for Musicals and Opera Terms of Success: A Look at the Basic Terms of a Production Agreement Contracts Guide: Understanding the Dramatists Guild Model Collaboration Agreement for Musicals Craft VIEW ALL Winter 2024 Sep/Oct 2009: Some Thoughts on Lyric Writing by Susan Birkenhead Winter 2024 Summer 1991: Stephen Sondheim in a Q&A Session, Part 2 by Stephen Sondheim Winter 2024 Spring 1991: Stephen Sondheim in a Q&A Session, Part 1 by Stephen Sondheim Advocacy VIEW ALL 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 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 National Reports VIEW ALL 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 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 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 Winter 2024 Betty Shamieh: Ten Questions by Betty Shamieh 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 Thanks, Tori by Reginald Lewis Bad Words and Good Theatre by Joseph Bardin Miracle of Miracles by Michele Lowe
Free Articles New Play Conferences by Goldie Patrick, DeLanna Studi, Kevin Lawler, Adrian Centeno, Jeremy Cohen, and Melia Bensussen
Autumn 2024 Enter the Good Ones: Theatres Doing Right by Their Dramatists by C. Quintana and Winter Miller
