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
As dramatists we’re always searching for a conflict that might resonate with the masses. Our hope is to illuminate the human condition in such a way that theatre lights can help shine through to the audiences’ soul.
When teaching the underserved the task is more complex. Often you must help your students find their light so they can illuminate others. While their light may be obvious to all who enter the room, it’s not always visible to the students themselves.
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is an award-winning playwright who hails from Portland, OR. She’s been a participant at Seven Devils Playwriting Conference; a Finalist for the Rosenthal New Play Prize, Seattle Rep’s New Work Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, JAW, New Harmony Project, Play Labs (Playwright’s Center Minneapolis) and has had productions from Bangalore, India to New York. For the past seven years, she’s been teaching playwriting (a program she devised) at MacLaren Correctional Facility, which serves men aged fourteen to 26.