The Community Issue
Return to Issue Archive-
Masthead of the Community Issue
-
Editor's Notes on the Community Issue: Theatre = Community
-
As a Writer, How Do You Build Community? Part One
-
Theresa Rebeck: Ten Questions
-
The Craft with Christopher Demos-Brown
-
Keynote Address from 2018 DG National Conference
-
As a Writer, What is the Most Unexpected Sense of Community You've Experienced?
-
Making a Place at the Table for Differently Abled Writers
-
Writing Wrongs
-
Imagine More
-
The Burden of History Denied: Writing for Social Justice
-
The Stage Writer as Change Agent
-
The Art of Turning Pain into Power
-
Bedrock Initiative
-
As a Writer, How Do You Build Community? Part Two
-
Make Them Hear You, Kid
-
Common Bonds
-
Imagine: Yemen
-
Banned Together 3.0
-
Unsafe Spaces: From the Desk of the DG President, Doug Wright
-
From the Desk of Rachel Routh: The Community Issue
-
As a Writer, How Do You Build Community? Part Three
-
Chicago: Local Writers’ Collectives
-
DC: Movers and Shakers
-
Gulf Coast: Creating a Room with a View
-
Houston: Interview with Jon-Marc McDonald
-
New England: Banned Together and More
-
New Jersey: Liberty Live Commission
-
New York City: Establishing Community
-
Pittsburgh: The Ray Werner Play Festival
-
California – North: Introducing Patricia Milton
-
Seattle: Speed Date Your Play
-
Tennessee: Tiger Lily Theatre
-
Nikkole Salter: Why I Joined the Guild
Are you sure about the title?” I asked her. The year was 1995 and my best friend, Eve Ensler, had the brilliant idea to perform a series of monologues based on hundreds of interviews she had conducted with women on the subject of their vaginas. The title was as bold and audacious as the piece itself: The Vagina Monologues. I loved the words, the work, the characters and of course, her chutzpah to take on a topic that up until that moment had dared not speak its name. But The Vagina Monologues? Really? Wouldn’t the word vagina alienate audiences and relegate the piece to a strictly downtown theatre crowd?
Subscribe to gain full access to The Dramatist Issue Archive.
Join and become a Dramatists Guild Member, Business Subscriber or subscribe to the magazine with an annual plan for unlimited access.
Guild Members receive our magazine as a benefit of membership!
wrote the short film Trevor, which won an Academy Award and inspired the founding of The Trevor Project, the only nationwide 24-hour suicide prevention lifeline for LGBTQ youth. James has created several off-Broadway shows and was ranked by The New York Times as “among the most talented solo performers of his (or any) generation.”