I’ve been thinking a lot about goal setting, something achievers swear by and life coaches encourage and everybody from athletes to business tycoons practice: determining what you want and the steps it might take to get there. Without goals, you can feel like you’re working hard and never getting anywhere. Every journey has a […]
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RIPP #46: IN SUPPORT OF WOMEN’S WORK
From DEE JAE COX, CO-FOUNDER/PRESIDENT/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, LOS ANGELES WOMEN’S THEATRE PROJECT ( If you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here (the original idea) and here (the evolution of that idea) to get some context before reading.) “I’m sure you know the statistics, only 20 percent of plays that do […]
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MUSINGS ON MOMENTUM
“I used to be really into (fill in the blank).” That’s something I can say about a lot of things in my life—photography, running as a preferred form of exercise, making my own greeting cards, film seminars, a certain lecture series, chicken wings. You probably have a similar list. And if we examine […]
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RIPP #45: DEEN KEEGAN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR. SOCIETY HILL PLAYHOUSE
If you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here (the original idea) and here (the evolution of that idea) to get some context before reading. From DEEN KEEGAN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR. SOCIETY HILL PLAYHOUSE “Over the past several years, the new plays we’ve done have each come in […]
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DURING REJECTION SEASON, A REMINDER ABOUT PERSPECTIVE
If fall is submission season, then spring inevitably becomes rejection season, as conferences and festivals fill their slots, and theaters choose their upcoming lineups. It can be a discouraging time, as any playwright who plays the submission game knows, and the hardest thing about it can be remaining positive about the merits of […]
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RIPP #43: JUNE BALLINGER, EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, PASSAGE THEATRE COMPANY
If you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here to get some context before reading. From JUNE BALLINGER, EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, PASSAGE THEATRE COMPANY “We actually just changed our submission process [Passage no longer accepts unsolicited submissions] as we get so many submissions, we simply do not […]
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TRADE A PLAY TUESDAY GUIDELINES
TRADE A PLAY TUESDAY (#TAPT) IS STILL CURRENT AND HAPPENING AS LONG AS THIS NOTICE IS HERE. Please remember, #TAPT is for short plays and scenes only. If you have full-length plays you’d like feedback for, please review the guidelines for Playwrights Offering Free Feedback (#POFF). One Tuesday, in January 2014, I […]
RIPP #41: JAZ DORSEY, DRAMATURG, CO-FOUNDER/MANAGING DIRECTOR SPIRAL THEATRE STUDIO
If you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here to get some context before reading. From JAZ DORSEY, DRAMATURG, CO-FOUNDER/MANAGING DIRECTOR SPIRAL THEATRE STUDIO “I actively look for things and if I see something I like, I go after it. I end up partnering with the […]
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RIPP #40: RON PELUSO, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, HISTORY THEATRE
If you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here to get some context before reading. From RON PELUSO, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, HISTORY THEATRE “Read theater mission statements and see how you might be a fit. As a theater that produces new work, I’m always happy to entertain ideas […]
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RIPP #37: BRENT HAZELTON, ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND DIRECTOR OF NEW PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, MILWAUKEE REP
If you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here to get some context before reading. From BRENT HAZELTON, ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND DIRECTOR OF NEW PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, MILWAUKEE REP “We’re two seasons in to reestablishing a literary department and new project development program after a few seasons of hiatus that was due […]
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