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

Dear Racine:
Your play has finally reached my desk, recommended for further review by the assistant to the Literary Associate, who is my assistant. We tend not to produce tragedies. We prefer light comedies with a light message, one that audiences can feel good about. Suggestion: change Phaedra’s name; it conjures images of Lady Macbeth, Gertrude, and Medea. Phoebe might work. By the way, is Racine your first or last name?
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received his M.A. in Theater from Hunter College. He served in New York Army National Guard from 1963-69. Honors & Awards include NJSCA, Shubert Fellowship, John Golden Award, 2009 Nathan Miller History Play Contest, Samuel French Original Short Play Festival (OOB), CAPS Grant finalist, National Play Award. Alumnus, New Dramatists; O’Neill Playwright, Columbia Pictures Television Workshop for Writers.