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225 playwright interviews

Amber Reed
Joshua Fardon
Dan O'Brien
Jonathan Blitstein
Dominique Morisseau
Fielding Edlow
Joshua Allen
Peter Gil-Sheridan
Tira Palmquist
Sarah Hammond
Charlotte Miller
Deborah Yarchun
Anna Kerrigan
Luis Alfaro
Jonathan Caren
Jennifer Haley
Sofia Alvarez
Kevin R. Free
Ken Weitzman
Michael Golamco
J. C. Lee
Ruth Margraff
Kirk Lynn
Tanya Saracho
Daria Polatin 
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Alice Tuan
Alice Austen
Jeffrey Sweet
Dan LeFranc
Andrew Hinderaker
Brett Neveu
Christine Evans
Jon Tuttle
Nikole...

I Interview Playwrights Part 225: Amber Reed

[image error]  Amber Reed  Hometown: Brooklyn, though I grew up in Michigan.
Current Town: Tokyo.
Q:  Tell me about the Weasel Festival and your contribution to it. A:  Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood (link: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=136324809723487&index=1), now in its fifth summer, is a festival of adaptations by current and former Brooklyn College playwriting MFA students.  Karinne Keithley, Kate Ryan, Erin Courtney, and Mac Wellman founded the festival and each year it's p...

I Interview Playwrights Part 224: Joshua Fardon

Joshua Fardon

Current Town: Los Angeles, CA.

Q:  Tell me about Shake. Is this your second play with Theater of Note?

A:  It's my third if you include one-acts. The first full-length of mine they did was called This Contract Limits Our Liability – Read It!, and last year they produced a playlet called Tenant. Shake is about a group of people in Manhattan during the year after 9/11. And it happens backwards. It starts in August 2002, the next scene is in July 2002, the next in June and so on, ...

I Interview Playwrights Part 223: Dan O'Brien

photo credit Peter Bellamy

Dan O'Brien

Current Town: Los Angeles. Though my wife (actor and writer Jessica St. Clair) and I are in NYC a lot too.

Q:  Tell me about The Angel in the Trees:

A:  It's a ghost story, or a series of ghost stories, an hour-long monologue spoken by a woman from New York recently transplanted to a small town in the south.

Q:  What else are you up to?

A:  I just got back from teaching playwriting with Beth Henley at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in Sewanee, TN. And I...

Hey, You want to read about 6 of my plays?

6 playwrights are reading 6 of my plays and writing about them. 

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It starts today here:

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I Interview Playwrights Part 222: Jonathan Blitstein

Jonathan Blitstein

Hometown: Lincolnshire, Illinois

Current Town: Brooklyn!

Q:  Tell me about your play going up at the Dream Up Festival:

A:  It's called Keep Your Baggage With You (at all times). It's about two young men who allow their friendship to fall apart as they transform into different people over time, struggling against some of the familiar difficulties of the digital age. It's told in seven scenes, each one advancing about five months into the future. Daniel Talbott ("Slipping",...

I Interview Playwrights Part 221: Dominique Morisseau

Dominique Morisseau

Hometown:  Detroit

Current Town:  New York City – Brooklyn

Q:  Tell me please about the play you're bringing to the O'Neill.

A:  My play that is being developed at the O'Neill this summer is called "Follow Me To Nellie's". It's partially based on my Aunt Nellie Jackson who was a legendary Madame in Natchez, Mississippi and who - during the Civil Rights Movement - used the brothel to assist the activists. I chose to focus on this aspect of my aunt's life, and create a sto...

I Interview Playwrights Part 220: Fielding Edlow

Fielding Edlow

Hometown: New York City

Current Town: Los Angeles

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  I'm remounting my newest one woman play, "Sugar Daddy" this Fall which debuted as a workshop production in the inaugural Hollywood Fringe Festival.  I'm working with the very seasoned and formidable director, Paul Stein, who runs the Comedy Central Space in Hollywood and it's been a very fruitful collaboration. It's my second one person play and I'm having a great time performing my own words. H...

I Interview Playwrights Part 219: Joshua Allen

Joshua Allen

Hometown: Chicago, IL

Current Town: New York, NY

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  My two current projects couldn't be more different. I'm revising a play I wrote called THE LAST PAIR OF EARLIES, which is inspired by the Great Migration of black Southerners that took place in the '20s, '30s, and '40s. Also, I'm working on a more contemporary play that's loosely inspired by an obscure Henry James novel entitled "The Other House."

Q:  Tell me about your experience working on a...