The Reality Check Issue (2018)
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Masthead of the Reality Check Issue (2018)
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Why Isn't the Guild a Labor Union?
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Dear Dramatist - September/October 2018
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Annalisa Dias: Ten Qeustions
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Phillip DePoy: The Craft
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Survival Jobs
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The Big "What Now?" Part 2
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On Writers Groups
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Working Without An Agent
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Suggestions for Staged Readings
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Directing Your Own Work
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Freelance Isn't Free
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Rejection Letters That Never Made It Into Print
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Advice to Young Theatre Composers
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Copyright Advocacy: Between Never and Forever
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From the Desk of DGF: What’s the Foundation?
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Chicago: Can Conversation Change the World?
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Dallas/Fort Worth: Will Power
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DC: Honoring Howard Shalwitz
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Gulf Coast: The NOLA Project
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Houston: Texas Playwrights Festival
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Northern New England: Contracts for Writers
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New Jersey: Joel Stone
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San Francisco: The Rest I Make Up
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Seattle: Out of Grief Comes Art
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Southwest: New Work!
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Tennessee: How does a playwright get from New York to Tennessee?
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Guild News – September/October 2018
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Dramatists Diary – September/October 2018
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New Guild Members as of July 15, 2018
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Why I Joined the Guild with Lloyd Suh
The first Reality Check Issue of The Dramatist (March/April 2016) includes Gary Garrison’s roundtable with playwriting students asking questions as they are about to face life after a BA or MFA program. In August 2018, we reunited Gary with five of the original seven panelists to check in and see what questions they have at this stage of their careers.

Gary Garrison
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was the Executive Director of Creative Affairs at the Dramatists Guild from 2007-2016.

is a queer playwright and TV writer, 2019 Chesley/Bumbalo Playwriting Award winner, and 2019 Relentless Award Semifinalist. He earned his MFA at NYU-Tisch in 2018. His plays are published by Oberon Books. charlesgershman.com.

’s plays have been developed/presented at the Actors Studio, Last Frontier, ATHE, 1:One (Dubai,) Edinburgh Festival, and elsewhere. Faculty Member, Dramatists Guild Institute. Founder/Director, NYC’s 9th Floor writers/actors collaborative. MFA, NYU/Tisch; A.B./M.B.A., Harvard; Certificat d’Etudes, L’Ecole Jacques Lecoq. www.victoriazdaly.com

is a playwright based in New York City. His plays include Kim’s Fine Food (Finalist, 2017 Blue Ink Playwriting Award), No Man’s Land, and several short plays written for The 52nd Street Project, where he works as their Program Director. www.garrettdkim.com.

’s plays include Whiteout and The Part of Me, among many others. He was recently a finalist for the Princess Grace Award, The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Residency, and a semifinalist for Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries. His play Don will be published in the 2018 Act One: One Act Anthology. MFA: NYU. www.kyleanthonysmith.com

is a produced playwright and television writer. She most recently was staffed on the CW network’s military drama, Valor. Shamar is an Army Combat Veteran who earned her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.