The Community Issue
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Masthead of the Community Issue
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Editor's Notes on the Community Issue: Theatre = Community
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As a Writer, How Do You Build Community? Part One
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Theresa Rebeck: Ten Questions
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The Craft with Christopher Demos-Brown
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Keynote Address from 2018 DG National Conference
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As a Writer, What is the Most Unexpected Sense of Community You've Experienced?
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Making a Place at the Table for Differently Abled Writers
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Writing Wrongs
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Imagine More
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The Burden of History Denied: Writing for Social Justice
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The Stage Writer as Change Agent
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The Art of Turning Pain into Power
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Bedrock Initiative
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As a Writer, How Do You Build Community? Part Two
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Make Them Hear You, Kid
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Common Bonds
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Imagine: Yemen
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Banned Together 3.0
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Unsafe Spaces: From the Desk of the DG President, Doug Wright
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From the Desk of Rachel Routh: The Community Issue
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As a Writer, How Do You Build Community? Part Three
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Chicago: Local Writers’ Collectives
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DC: Movers and Shakers
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Gulf Coast: Creating a Room with a View
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Houston: Interview with Jon-Marc McDonald
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New England: Banned Together and More
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New Jersey: Liberty Live Commission
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New York City: Establishing Community
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Pittsburgh: The Ray Werner Play Festival
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California – North: Introducing Patricia Milton
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Seattle: Speed Date Your Play
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Tennessee: Tiger Lily Theatre
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Nikkole Salter: Why I Joined the Guild
Once you have an idea, how do you proceed? Do you take notes? Do you outline? Do you plunge right in?
Let me just start by saying how unworthy I feel talking about craft and process, especially to some of the wonderful writers who are going to read this who actually have a process. Half of my process is groping around in the dark and hoping not to fall into a hidden chasm of despair.
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has written over a dozen full-length plays and screenplays. Honors include the Laurents/Hatcher Award, a Steinberg Citation from The American Theatre Critics Association, and multiple regional theatre honors (including two Carbonell Awards, multiple Silver Palms, and the inaugural Berkshire Theatre Award for Outstanding New Work). Chris and his wife, Stephanie, are co-founders of Zoetic Stage, an award-winning theatre in residence at The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida. They also practice law together. Chris’s play, American Son, opened November 4, 2018, at the Booth Theatre on Broadway directed by Kenny Leon, and starting Kerry Washington, Steven Pasquale, Jeremy Jordan, and Eugene Lee. www.AmericanSonPlay.com