couple of exceptions to this rule: the Goodman Theatre has a dedicated room for the writer called the August Wilson Room, with a large desk. Arena Stage and the Public Theater are now giving health insurance to writers and making office space available for them. Playwrights Horizons has a writer in residence, Dan LeFranc. But generally, as ensemble theater disappears and theater artists become more nomadic, institutions become more still, more corporate, more steady.
