The Dramatist Blog

NEWS: #ENOUGH Announces Seven Winning Plays

#ENOUGH is proud to announce the selection of seven plays by teen playwrights chosen by nationally recognized dramatists

Text reads: #ENOUGH Plays to End Gun Violence on a red background

Oct 17, 2020

NEWS: MacDowell to Reopen Doors for Fall Residencies

MacDowell, one of the nation’s first artist residency programs, will reopen a scaled-back program beginning later this month with a s

Oct 17, 2020

Submission Opportunity: Good Medicine and/or Indigenous Futurism

New Native Theatre is accepting 10-minute play submissions written by Native American, Alaska Native, Hawaiian, and First Nations pla

Oct 16, 2020

Ambassador Report: Wisconsin

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Danielle Dresden
and Paulette Laufer

Greetings from Madison, the state capitol of Wisconsin.

Oct 16, 2020

Ambassador Report: Washington State – East/Spokane

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Bryan Harnetiaux

Here is Spokane. It lies about 270 miles east of Seattle, just shy of the Idaho panhandle, and is the largest city in Eastern Washington.

Oct 15, 2020

Submission Opportunity: VOICES, A New Interdisciplinary Art Campaign For Black Women

On October 9th, poet and activist Aja Monet and playwright, activist and V-Day Founder V (formerly Eve Ensler) launched VOICES, a new interdisciplinary performance arts project and campaign grounded in Black women’s stories.

VOICES, A New Interdisciplinary Art Campaign For Black Women

Oct 14, 2020

Ambassador Report: Virginia – East

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Clyde Santana

The Zeiders American Dream Theater—The Z—is a professional, not-for-profit theatre company with the mission to introduce new works an

Sibel Galindez provides guidelines for the High School students creative writing project participants outdoors in front of the “Z” at the Proteus Festival 2019

Oct 14, 2020

Ambassador Report: Tennessee – Knoxville

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Harrison Young

Knoxville, Tennessee—also known as Scruffy City! We’re home to the Sunsphere, the University of Tennessee, and cool writing opportunities.

Puppet-maker Leah Chance and actor Kenneth Herring rehearse for Light Years: a Journey with Alzheimer’s

Oct 13, 2020

Ambassador Report: South Carolina

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Triza Cox

The Palmetto State wears its Southern heritage like a badge of honor, and while in more recent times a review of that history has proven problematic, one aspect of that tradition which no one dispu

Oct 12, 2020

NEWS: Taylor Mac Receives International Ibsen Award

The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has announced that DG member TAYLOR MAC will receive the 2020 International Ibsen Award, which is widely-considered to be the ‘Nobel Prize for Theatre.’

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