
Playwright Spotlight features a new playwright every episode to discuss the tools of the trade and solutions to the obstacles we face as writers in hopes of making us all better and more successful playwrights.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 141 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Performing ArtsArtsEducation | |||

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Joy Gregory is a Peabody Award winner and three-time Humanitas nominee. She is a founding ensemble member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company Her first play, All Souls Day, was produced with Lookingglass in 1992, followed by dreamin... more
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Jesi Bender is playwright, novelist, and poet from Upstate New York. She is the author of the novels Child of Light and The Book of the Last Word, and the poetry collection Dangerous Women. Her plays include Kinderkrankenhaus and Cr... more
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Robin Gerber is a playwright and best selling author. Her first play, The Shot, was selected for the 2017 Ojai Playwright’s Conference and is currently being produced around the country starring Sharon Lawrence. She served as commit... more
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Ben Steinfeld is a playwright, director, teacher, musician, and co-artistic director of Fiasco Theater. He wrote the family musical Twelve Kinds of Ice (book/music/lyrics) and the book for the new musical Diamond Alice and holds awa... more
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The guests provide so much important information and advice about playwriting that it feels as if I were taking a course instead of listening to a podcast.
Even when I find myself disagreeing with someone being interviewed, it gets me thinking and learning! Finally a podcast that isn’t all about the host’s personality! Good questions and great discussions.
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A show built around deep dives with a rotating roster of playwrights and theatre-makers, focusing on craft, process, and practical paths to getting work produced. Episodes mix hands-on guidance—dialogue, structure, scene-building, site-specific storytelling, and collaboration with directors and venues—with behind-the-scenes realities of running theatres, developing apps for writers, and navigating funding and production. A notable through-line is how guests adapt traditional playwriting skills to innovative formats (immersive, site-specific, multi-media) and how relationships with venues, companies, and collaborators shape opportunities for emerging writers. The format tends to surface candid career anecdotes, actionable tips for submission... more
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