Tools of the Trade
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Editor’s Notes on the Tools of the Trade Issue
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Dear Dramatist – September/October 2021
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Why Is There No Print Edition of the Tools of the Trade Issue?
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Honoring Micki Grant with Charlayne Woodard
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Honoring Micki Grant with Kirsten Childs
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Erika Dickerson-Despenza: Ten Questions
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Vanessa Severo: Ten Questions
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Douglas Post: What I’m Teaching Now
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Peter Parnell: What Copyright Means to Me
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Can I Get a Ride?: Affording the Life of a Theatre Writer
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Tools of the Trade: Composers Talk High-Tech and Low-Tech
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The Great Software Debate
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Old School Tools
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Virginia – East: A Theatre Producing the Unproduced Locals
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Dramatists Diary: September/October 2021
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New Guild Members as of July 15, 2021
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Classified Ads - Sept/Oct 2021
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Kirsten Childs: Why I Joined the Guild
JAY ALAN ZIMMERMAN: So, I want to get a little peek into your workspace. Do you have a workspace; do you have many workspaces? And if you do, let’s talk about the physical things: What are the instruments that you have there? What is your basic set-up? What are your physical essentials for creating?
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’s works include Incredibly Deaf Musical (Duke on 42nd Street), BRAIN. STORM. (Prospect Theater Company), Roboticus (Spotify/LEMURplex), Comfort Pet (Fault Line Theatre), the Naughty & Nice Holiday Songbook (Lincoln Center/54 Below/Amazon), and the Seeing Music Visualizers (Google Creative Labs). He is a recent BMI Harrington Award winner for his visual music ASL song “Our Universe” and his current musical projects include The Bridge inspired by a Thornton Wilder novella and Songs For Hands On A Thursday based on the poems of Sarah Ruhl.
is a composer/lyricist, playwright, voice teacher, and performance scholar. She is assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Northwestern University, and divides her time between New York City and Chicago. Her shows include The Family Resemblance, Rishvor, Monsoon Wedding, Mirror of Most Value: A Ms. Marvel Play, Paradise Square (currently playing at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre), and the secret agent musical Sympathy Jones. masiasare.com
is a composer, songwriter, and musician in New York. He wrote original songs for the Amazon Prime hit series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for which he received three Primetime Emmy nominations for Best Original Song, a World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song, and an HMMA award. He is the recipient of the Fred Ebb and Jonathan Larson awards, LA’s Garland Award for best score, and the ASCAP award for film composing.
is a NYC-based composer/lyricist. Musicals: Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan, One Good Day, Hip Hop Cinderella. Awards: Kleban Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award, ASCAP Harold Adamson Lyric Award, Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award. Music Direction: A Strange Loop.
is one of the most produced Theatre for Young Audiences artists working today. Honors: Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Family Musical; Jane Chambers Playwriting Award; Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Musical Adaptation. She is a proud Mexican-American, “Navy brat,” and Tisch School of the Arts graduate.