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

When a group of illustrious playwrights, including George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, and Eugene O’Neill, gathered to form the Dramatists Guild over a century ago—the nation's first and only trade association for American theatre writers—they held one ideal paramount: copyright. They believed that authors should maintain the legal rights to their own work. In maintaining their own copyrights, authors could control the creative life of their material. They could choose their own producers, their own directors, and their own casts, and no changes could be lawfully made in production without their explicit consent.
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Broadway: Good Night, Oscar (Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Play), I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize), War Paint, Hands on a Hardbody, The Little Mermaid, and Grey Gardens. Off-Broadway: Posterity (Atlantic); Unwrap Your Candy (Vineyard); Quills (NYTW); Standing on Ceremony (Minetta Lane); Buzzsaw Berkeley (WPA).

is an entertainment attorney. He’s been with the Dramatists Guild of America since 1997, and their Co-Executive Director and general counsel since June 2005. He is the Treasurer for the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund.