The Community Issue
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Masthead of the Community Issue
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Editor's Notes on the Community Issue: Theatre = Community
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As a Writer, How Do You Build Community? Part One
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Theresa Rebeck: Ten Questions
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The Craft with Christopher Demos-Brown
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Keynote Address from 2018 DG National Conference
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As a Writer, What is the Most Unexpected Sense of Community You've Experienced?
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Making a Place at the Table for Differently Abled Writers
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Writing Wrongs
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Imagine More
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The Burden of History Denied: Writing for Social Justice
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The Stage Writer as Change Agent
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The Art of Turning Pain into Power
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Bedrock Initiative
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As a Writer, How Do You Build Community? Part Two
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Make Them Hear You, Kid
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Common Bonds
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Imagine: Yemen
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Banned Together 3.0
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Unsafe Spaces: From the Desk of the DG President, Doug Wright
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From the Desk of Rachel Routh: The Community Issue
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As a Writer, How Do You Build Community? Part Three
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Chicago: Local Writers’ Collectives
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DC: Movers and Shakers
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Gulf Coast: Creating a Room with a View
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Houston: Interview with Jon-Marc McDonald
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New England: Banned Together and More
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New Jersey: Liberty Live Commission
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New York City: Establishing Community
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Pittsburgh: The Ray Werner Play Festival
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California – North: Introducing Patricia Milton
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Seattle: Speed Date Your Play
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Tennessee: Tiger Lily Theatre
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Nikkole Salter: Why I Joined the Guild
Keynote Speech from the Dramatists Guild National Conference, Hilton Midtown Hotel, New York City, July 28, 2018

“The theatre must always be a safe . . . place.”
So said Donald J. Trump; I’m hesitant to use the title “president,” because as President of your Guild, I have a vested interest in rehabilitating that word.
Trump launched this aesthetic salvo when the fearless cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton confronted musical theatre enthusiast Mike Pence (who knew?) following the show’s curtain call.
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won the Tony Award for Best Play, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, I Am My Own Wife. His play Quills garnered the 1995 Kesselring Prize for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club and, for Wright, a 1996 Village Voice Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting. He is a recipient of the William L. Bradley Fellowship at Yale University, the Charles MacArthur Fellowship at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, an HBO Fellowship in playwriting, and the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. In 2010 he was named a United States Artists Fellow. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on the board of New York Theatre Workshop.