Craft and Career
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Masthead of The Craft & Career Issue
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Back to Basics: Editor's Notes on The Craft and Career Issue
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Matthew-Lee Erlbach is Fighting for a New Arts Economy
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Artists & Activists in the Twin Cities
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Native and Indigenous Structure and Dramaturgy
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My Playreading Story for COVID Times
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On Stage Directions
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Playwrights take the Leap into Comics
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Poets & Playwrights
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From the Desk of Political Engagement: Healthcare for Dramatists
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Atlanta: Mark Swanson and Rus McCoy
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California - South: Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You (Unless You’re a Woman Over 40)
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Colorado: New Work at Buntport Theater
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Kentucky: Introducing Our New Regional Rep
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Michigan: A Quarantine Pod for Black Lives
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New England - West: SquareWrights, Chester Theatre Company, and TheaterWorks
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New York State: A New Chapter
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North and South Carolina: Playwright as Producer
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Ohio: What’s Next? Getting Your Play Produced
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Philadelphia: Philadelphia’s “Music (Wo)Man”
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Portland: Update on Portland Theatre Scene
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Utah: Theatre in Unprecedented Times
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New Guild Members as of September 15, 2020
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Stephen Schwartz: Last Word
I’m quite sure I echo all the Regional Representatives when I say that most theatres are dark across this country. It’s hard to believe that I was in New York in late February seeing Beetlejuice on Broadway. Now Broadway is just another street in New York. The Portland theatre scene is equally silent. Everyone has had to re-think budgets, rental income, Equity contracts and, most of all, seasons. All that carefully crafted theatre meant to fit into an overarching storyline never happened. And there was so much that I was looking forward to.
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is an award-winning playwright who hails from Portland, OR. She’s been a participant at Seven Devils Playwriting Conference; a Finalist for the Rosenthal New Play Prize, Seattle Rep’s New Work Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, JAW, New Harmony Project, Play Labs (Playwright’s Center Minneapolis) and has had productions from Bangalore, India to New York. For the past seven years, she’s been teaching playwriting (a program she devised) at MacLaren Correctional Facility, which serves men aged fourteen to 26.