E-Publishing Roundtable, Part Two

Mar 01, 2013

Illustration by Carlos PX

Jonathan Lomma: We’re going to a bookless world.

Jeffrey Sweet: And increasingly we’re going to be storing the stuff that we buy in the cloud so that we don’t even have to keep it on our…

JL: Yep, keep it on the device.

JS: So wherever we have Wi-Fi, if we’re hit with the impulse to read something we’ve already bought… So we don’t even have physical possession of works of art anymore.

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Jonathan Lomma

represents a Who’s Who of American theatre luminaries including Kenneth Lonergan, Paula Vogel, David Rabe, Thomas Bradshaw, Sarah Ruhl, Adrienne Kennedy, Craig Lucas, Ken Ludwig, and Beth Henley among many others. He represented Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, Arthur Laurents, A.R. Gurney, and Joe Masteroff and now looks after their literary estates, as well as the estates of Jerome Robbins, Howard Ashman, and Hugh Wheeler. He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College with B.A.s in English and Theatre and holds a J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law. He is a member in good standing of the New York bar and lives in Bronxville with his wife Shea and their two children.

Jeffrey Sweet

is the author of a book on dramatic technique called The Dramatist’s Toolkit and a member of the Dramatists Guild Council. Based in Chicago and New York, his plays include The Value of Names, Flyovers, The Action Against Sol Schumann, and Court-Martial at Fort Devens, and Kunstler. His work has won Jefferson, Audelco, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, and “Best Plays” citation and prizes from the American Theatre Critics Association.

Arthur Kopit

was elected to the Guild’s Council in 1982, where he continued to serve until his death in April 2021. He received the Flora Roberts Award from the Guild in 2014. We reprint this 2016 essay to honor his life, work, and service to the Guild. Kopit’s plays include Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad; Indians; Wings; the book for the musical Nine (score by Maury Yeston); End of the World With Symposium to Follow; the book for the musical Phantom (score by Maury Yeston); the book for the musical High Society (score by Cole Porter); Road to Nirvana; BecauseHeCan; A Dram of Drummhicit (written with Anton Dudley); and various one-act plays.

Ken Dingledine

is the Tony Award-winning and Emmy-nominated President of Harmonia. He has worked in the theatrical production and licensing world for over twenty years. Ken is a co-founder of the premier theatrical streaming platform, Broadway on Demand, and was one of the producers of the Emmy-nominated series Broadway Master Class.

David H. Faux

is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey and focuses on Intellectual Property, Entertainment, Art, and Business/Commercial Law. He has served as Of Counsel for the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. since 2007.

Tom Kjellberg

practices in the areas of copyright, right of publicity, and trademark law. He represents companies large and small in copyright licensing and other transactions, litigation, and enforcement matters.

Michael Fellmeth

has a degree in English literature from Duke University and a Master’s in Theatre Arts from Columbia University. In the mid-1990s he read plays for Playwrights Horizons and the Helen Merrill Ltd literary agency. In 1997 he went to work for Dramatists Play Service and remained for seventeen years, first as a proofreader, then Publications Director, and then as Vice President. During his tenure, he published over 900 plays, including eleven Pulitzer Prize winners and ten Tony Award winners, invented the industry’s first automated theatrical-licensing app, and helped triple annual revenue. In 2006 he founded Theatre Logos Agency. Mr Fellmeth joined Broadway Play Publishing as a managing partner in 2015.

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