Once again, I offer up the year’s facts and figures in an attempt to inspire you to keep up your submission game. As with 2014’s Recap: You Can’t Argue With Numbers, 2015’s Review in Numbers, 2016’s Year in Review, and 2017 Year in Review, the goal is to share stats and results of submission, the hows of productions, […]
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MY 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW
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TEN YEARS A PLAYWRIGHT: celebration and reflection
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. This is my actress daughter’s favorite quote, one that’s been adopted by her twin sister—a computer coder/YouTuber—who has it as her computer wallpaper. It’s my favorite now, too. Never let up […]
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THAT ELUSIVE SECOND PRODUCTION
**Warning** This is a long one… but readers have been asking for it… Be careful what you wish for ???? “My play had a great world premiere, and now I can’t get a second production, because it’s been produced already.” I hear this a lot, and I address some of the problem […]
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10 STEPS TO SURVIVING A BAD REVIEW
Whether it comes in the form of feedback from a reader, a blog post, or formal newspaper review, harsh words sting. Devastate. Create self-doubt. No less than Teresa Rebeck has talked about how difficult it was for her to recover from a bad review. But in a subjective, collaborative, artistic world, they are going […]
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2014 SUBMISSION RECAP: YOU CAN’T ARGUE WITH NUMBERS
Last year in my 2013 submission recap, I simply reported how many theaters I’d submitted to, and how many I’d heard back from. I’m going to go about it a bit differently this year, and make some comparisons over the past three years, because I think—I hope—it will be telling. (I’m a few days […]
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FINAL RIPP POST #52: SEAN DANIELS, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MERRIMACK REPERTORY THEATRE (FORMERLY ARTIST-AT-LARGE, GEVA THEATRE CENTER)
As always, 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). Before we begin, let’s congratulate Sean Daniels on his new appointment as Artistic Director of Merrimack Repertory Theatre! And now, as […]
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RIPP #51: CYNDY MARION, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, WHITE HORSE THEATER
As always, 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 CYNDY MARION, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, WHITE HORSE THEATER “White Horse Theater Company is a very small not-for-profit off-off Broadway theater company […]
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RIPP #50: REDUCING THE CLUTTER: A COMPILATION POST
As I wind down the RIPP series in preparation for something different in the new year, I’m gathering together some of the shorter bits I have. Though shorter, I hope they are no less inspirational. In this group, the advice is all about how to, as one playwright friend says, reduce the clutter, […]
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RIPP #49: FROM ROBYN FLATT, EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, DALLAS CHILDREN’S THEATER
As always, 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 ROBYN FLATT, EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, DALLAS CHILDREN’S THEATER “It is a tough world out there for playwrights now that boards […]
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RIPP #48: ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON, FOUNDER, ROSALIND PRODUCTIONS
As promised, another installment of RIPP. And, as always, 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 ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON, FOUNDER, ROSALIND PRODUCTIONS “I’m sort of a one-woman show; I […]
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