Carey Purcell looks at female artistic leadership of summer companies at New York Stage and Film, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Where Do Broken Hearts and Intellectual Copyright Go? The Ponderings of a Dumped Artistic Director
5 June 2016
After Ernie Nolan was terminated from a theatre company where he was artistic director, he considers the rights of artists and administrators who work in states where employers can fire at will.
Celebrating the Beginnings of a Historic Women’s Theatre
24 May 2016
Playwright Kathleen Warnock reports on WOW Café Theatre’s reunion and book launch for Memories of the Revolution, which chronicles the first ten years of WOW Café.
Playwright Zoe Kamil discusses the actual training of student playwrights and shares the insight of several undergraduate playwrights from programs in the US.
Playwright Natalie Sacks shares her post-graduate experience of working various theatre jobs, her take on the “starving artist” model, and her journey to writing her first play since college.
How Can We Foster the Voices of Early Career Directors?
24 April 2016
JD Caudill writes about his personal experiences navigating Chicago as an early career director, and asks how the field can better support such artists.