#Playwriting
The Kilroys’ 2020 List Honors Cancelled and Postponed Plays by Women, Trans, and Non-Binary Writers
The Kilroys, the feminist collective of playwrights, directors, and producers, has published its annual List. Unlike previous editions, The List 2020 doesn’t feature unproduced plays by women,...
Paula Vogel and Daryl Roth Launch New Play Commission at Vineyard Theatre
Frequent collaborators Paula Vogel and Daryl Roth are teaming up yet again — this time to support established playwrights. The respective Pulitzer Prize-winning “How I Learned To Drive”...
Suzan-Lori Parks to Accept Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award
2018 continues to be a banner year for Suzan-Lori Parks. News broke this summer that the playwright and screenwriter would pen a Billie Holiday biopic and now The New York Times has confirmed Parks...
Female UK Playwrights Call for More Women-Written Plays to Be Commissioned, Included in Canon
Charlotte Jones, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Tanika Gupta, and more playwrights are calling time’s up on UK theater’s exclusion of women writers. According to The Stage, they are demanding...
Lynn Nottage to Make Broadway Debut with “Sweat”
Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is heading to Broadway. As Deadline reports, her play “Sweat” will transfer to Studio 54 in March after a successful run at The Public Theater. The play...
Read Sarah Ruhl’s Inspiring Speech on the Election and Being a Female Writer
Playwright Sarah Ruhl was awarded with the 2016 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award last week. The prize, which “celebrates career excellence in American theater,” comes with $200,000. An...
Joanna Murray-Smith Wins Inaugural Mona Brand Award for Women Writers
Writer Joanna Murray-Smith has been announced as the first ever winner of Australia’s Mona Brand Award for Women Stage and Screen Writers, The AU Review reports. The prize comes with an award...
D.C.’s Signature Theatre and Broadway Producer Launch Writers Initiative to Support Female…
D.C.’s Signature Theatre and Broadway Producer Launch Writers Initiative to Support Female Playwrights Broadway producer Jenna Segal is teaming up with the Washington D.C. Signature Theatre to...
Sarah Ruhl to Receive Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award
Playwright Sarah Ruhl has been named the recipient of this year’s Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, The New York Times reports. The prize, which “celebrates career excellence in American...