The cover of The Age Issue of The Dramatist. An illustration of two sets of hands, one older and one younger, playing piano side by side.
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The Craft with Karen Hartman
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Once you have an idea, how do you proceed? Do you take notes? Do you outline? Do you plunge right in?

 

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Karen Hartman
Karen Hartman

was the first playwright celebrated by the VOLT Festival in 2022 with three simultaneous off-Broadway premieres by a single author: New Golden Age (Primary Stages); The Lucky Star (Directors Company); and Goldie, Max & Milk (MBL Productions), all at 59e59. Other recent honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Henry Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (Finalist). Her many award-winning plays and musicals are published by Concord Theatricals, DPS, Playscripts, and TCG. She invented and runs The Hundred Day Reckoning: a Creative Response to Hard Change.