For an explanation of RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project, click here.   FROM ARI SCHRIER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY   “There have been two playwrights with new plays we’ve worked with over the past year. The most recent show we did was Clown Bar, and that was a completely cold submission. Adam […]

   For an explanation of RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project, click here.   Just back from a great weekend at the Shaw Festival, where I discovered a new restaurant—Rest—which has an extensive wine list that is all local. I don’t know of another restaurant in the area, in Canada or stateside that can boast […]

  FROM DORI JACOB, LITERARY MANAGER, MAGIC THEATRE:  “Finding a great play is difficult. A great play for me can mean several things. The first thing I look for is a compelling story that is told with 100% commitment to its arc and purpose. The next is character development. What is a great story without […]

  For an explanation of RIPP, Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project, click here.   SETH ROZIN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, INTERACT THEATRE COMPANY   “InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia produces a majority of new plays by less well-known writers.  In the past ten years, five of the new plays that we produced essentially came over the transom.  Tom […]

  For an explanation of RIPP, Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project, click here.   RICKY MARTINEZ, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, NEW THEATRE   “Right before I became Artistic Director, while I was Associate AD and also Literary Manager, I read a playwright submission, [Just A Kiss], which blew my socks off that had no agent representation.  I immediately […]

  Explanation of RIPP, Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project here.   MELISSA HILLMAN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, IMPACT THEATRE CO.   “I started on Twitter at the insistence of a few people in my company, especially Jax Steager and Reggie White, in 2010. I didn’t know what it was all about, so Jax introduced me to the […]

If you know Albert Ramsdell Gurney from his days at the Nichols School in Buffalo, you call him Peter, a name he says his mother “picked out of a hat” because Bert and Al were already taken by his father and an uncle. If you became his friend during or after his time at Williams […]

Navigating the Divide Between Novels and Plays A Q&A with writer Patrick Gabridge, whose novel, Tornado Siren, just became available as an ebook Patrick is a fellow playwright and founder of the Playwrights Binge that I wrote about last week. Fittingly, I get to feature him here on the final day of the Binge. Thanks […]

Stephen Adly Guirgis comes to Buffalo May 14 to attend a production of his play, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, at the Road Less Traveled Theatre. Earlier that day, he’ll meet with local playwrights for an onstage interview and Q&A and after the show, he’ll attend a gala, along with Stephen McKinley Henderson, who […]