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 […]
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RIPP #5: JENNY LARSON, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, SALVAGE VANGUARD
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RIPP #4: DORI JACOB, LITERARY MANAGER AND DRAMATURG, MAGIC THEATRE
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 […]
RIPP #3: SETH ROZIN, INTERACT THEATRE
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 […]
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FINALLY! WHAT IS RIPP? REAL INSPIRATION FOR PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT!
Playwrights talk a lot about how to get plays in the hands of those who will read them, and lamenting the seeming impossibility of this task. And yet… if it were truly impossible, would we keep writing? Would we keep submitting day in and day out? We must believe that even if the odds […]
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