I've gotten my first responses to my notebook! Thanks to those with interest. David Alan Moore, a playwright friend of mine in Chicago, has said I can post his blog address here. It is www.davidalanmoore.wordpress.com.
Check it out for more thoughts on playwriting.
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You are lovely and kind, Jenny.
I'm going to suggest just a few other bloggers in the theatrosphere that you and your visitors might also find interesting. On their sites, you will find more links, and at those sites you'll find more links... whoever coined the phrase "World Wide Web," lo these many years ago, could not have gotten it more right.
OK, an extremely short list, Chicago-centric (because I'm feeling very jingoistic today) and none of them institutional blogs (as in those on the websites of Steppenwolf, The House Theatre, Grey Zelda, etc.):
Aaron Carter: www.ntfd.blogspot.com
Bilal Dardai: http://bdar.livejournal.com/
Don Hall: www.donhall.blogspot.com
Rob Kozlowski: www.robkozlowski.blogspot.com
Marisa Wegrzyn: http://chainsawcalligraphy.blogspot.com/
David
www.davidalanmoore.wordpress.com
I'm currently researching playwrighting mfa programs and Austin is one of my top three. Do you have any thoughts you could share on it? Also, seeing as I am currently monumentally broke, do you have any expirience regarding how easy / borderline impossible it is to get financial aid.
Something you might be interested in
The Castillo Theatre Launches the
2009 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman
Political Playwriting Contest
The Castillo Theatre believes that theatre, at its best, is a playground of the social imagination. But in the sandbox of the American stage, our play has for too long been constrained by financial concerns dictated by a conservative political and cultural environment. There have been few forums for playwrights and plays that push the political and cultural envelope. The purpose of the Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting Contest is to encourage the writing of such plays and to provide a stage for scripts that, due to their progressive/radical and experimental vantage point(s), would not otherwise be produced.
The Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting Contest was founded by its namesakes in 2004. Mario Fratti is the author of some 70 plays (the best-known being the award-winning musical Nine) which together have received a total of more than 600 productions internationally. Fred Newman is a philosopher, psychotherapist, political strategist, and author of over 30 postmodern political plays and musicals, and he is the retired artistic director of the Castillo Theatre.
The contest is looking for scripts for the stage that engage the political/social/cultural questions impacting on the world today. The plays should not have been previously produced, and may be in any style, set in any historical time or location, contain any number of characters, and be of any producible length. The plays must be in English and, due to production limitations, no musicals can be considered.
The first-prize winner will receive a production by the Castillo Theatre at the All Stars Project on 42nd Street as part of its 2009-2010 season. Five runners-up will receive public readings at Castillo during the summer of 2009. The contest will be judged by a distinguished selection committee from the progressive and experimental theatre community.
All submissions must be received, in English, by December 30, 2008. Hard copy only. Scripts will not be returned. Send all submissions to: Castillo Theatre ATTN: Political Playwriting Contest 543 West 42nd Street New York, N.Y. 10036
Questions and inquiries should be addressed to Dan Friedman, dramaturg, via email: castillo@allstars.org.
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