On Stage Directions

Nov 01, 2020

Kia Corthron, Steven Diet, Isaac Gómez, Chisa Hutchinson and Douglas Post

Douglas Post: Thank you, all, for agreeing to be a part of this conversation. Our friend, Joey Stocks, tells me that he scoured the index of past articles from our magazine, going back to 1964, and found no previous pieces written specifically on this topic. So, he thinks we’re the first—no pressure.

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Kia Corthron

’s Tempestuous Elements will premiere at Arena Stage in 2023-24. She was awarded the Dramatists Guild’s 2021 Horton Forte Award and 2020 Flora Roberts Award. Her second novel, Moon and the Mars, was released in 2021.

Steven Dietz

’s recent premieres include Gaslight and Murder on the Links. He co-adapted his play Shooting Star for the recent Meg Ryan movie What Happens Later. His latest play, Vial Man (The Apothecary’s Story), will be part of the Ruth Easton New Play series at the Playwrights’ Center in March.

Isaac Gómez

is an award-winning playwright and television writer originally from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. His plays include La Ruta (Steppenwolf), the way she spoke (Audible) starring Kate del Castillo, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Steppenwolf), among others. He is under commission with Alley Theatre, South Coast Repertory, and Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Television writing credits include Narcos: Mexico on Netflix. He is the recipient of the Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award at Primary Stages, and a 3Arts “Make A Wave” grantee. He is represented by the Gersh Agency and Circle of Confusion.

Chisa Hutchinson

has written a bunch of plays, most recently a radio drama called Redeemed that you can listen to on Apple Podcasts (hint-hint). She’s won a bunch of awards and all that’s cool and good, but mostly she just wants to figure out how to cure racism with words. www.chisahutchinson.com

Douglas Post

has two new plays opening this season – By My Will with the Atlanta Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta and Shaw vs. Tunney with Grippo Stage Company at Theater Wit in Chicago. His one-man thriller Bloodshot was produced earlier this season at the Hudson Village Theatre outside Montreal. He serves on the Copyright Advocacy Committee, the Education Committee and the Political Engagement Committee.

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