#playwriting — Public Fediverse posts

Danville SanRamon: Guest Opinion: What we learned after producing play written by AI. “At the heart of most plays is conflict. A series of conflicts lead to a turning point, where the protagonist experiences a transformation and the story drives toward resolution. But the AI resisted. Despite repeated revisions, it shied away from allowing conflict between characters.”

Suzan-Lori Parks' "Watch Me Work" on HowlRound TV — a rare, electrifying look into a master playwright's process! Perfect for theatre nerds, writers, and anyone hungry for creative sparks. Raw, brilliant, and full of craft insights. Don't miss this artistic masterclass! #SuzanLoriParks #WatchMeWork #Theatre #Playwriting #HowlRound #LiveEvent #Craft #English
https://peertube-us.howlround.com/videos/watch/71f63690-cd42-4294-b299-1277bc413ea7

Why did I write 28 short plays last month? In the hopes that one of them will get produced.
My latest "Banshee Blog" entry:
#playwriting #theater #writing

http://adam-richter.com/2026/03/03/february-is-a-month-of-quantity-not-quality/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Calling all #climate conscious #playwrights!

The Climate Playwriting Prize 2026 | Discover | Shakespeare's Globe

We believe that playwrights have a vital role to play in the conversation around the climate. Theatre is a space for animating audiences, forming communities, and experimenting with form; a space for processing the past, articulating the present, and imagining the future. Beyond the West End, regional and touring theatre is playing a vital role in engaging audiences.

This moment is marked by rising temperatures, escalating impacts of change on communities and ecosystems, but also by the unprecedented call to arms to storytellers at COP30 in 2025. The need for new stories that help audiences grapple with the realities and possibilities of this crisis has never been clearer. 

In order to surface the breadth and diversity of new stories about this planetary moment, the Climate Playwriting Prize is an open invitation to playwrights to respond creatively to this subject matter. We are partnering with organisations all around the country to deliver workshops to writers, unlocking how they might want to tell their climate story.

#Playwright #playwrighting #playwriting #climatestorytelling #climatestories #climateaction #shakespearesglobe #GlobeTheatre

https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/jobs-and-opportunities/climate-playwriting-prize-2026/

Calling all #climate conscious #playwrights!

The Climate Playwriting Prize 2026 | Discover | Shakespeare's Globe

We believe that playwrights have a vital role to play in the conversation around the climate. Theatre is a space for animating audiences, forming communities, and experimenting with form; a space for processing the past, articulating the present, and imagining the future. Beyond the West End, regional and touring theatre is playing a vital role in engaging audiences.

This moment is marked by rising temperatures, escalating impacts of change on communities and ecosystems, but also by the unprecedented call to arms to storytellers at COP30 in 2025. The need for new stories that help audiences grapple with the realities and possibilities of this crisis has never been clearer. 

In order to surface the breadth and diversity of new stories about this planetary moment, the Climate Playwriting Prize is an open invitation to playwrights to respond creatively to this subject matter. We are partnering with organisations all around the country to deliver workshops to writers, unlocking how they might want to tell their climate story.

#Playwright #playwrighting #playwriting #climatestorytelling #climatestories #climateaction #shakespearesglobe #GlobeTheatre

https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/jobs-and-opportunities/climate-playwriting-prize-2026/

Calling all #climate conscious #playwrights!

The Climate Playwriting Prize 2026 | Discover | Shakespeare's Globe

We believe that playwrights have a vital role to play in the conversation around the climate. Theatre is a space for animating audiences, forming communities, and experimenting with form; a space for processing the past, articulating the present, and imagining the future. Beyond the West End, regional and touring theatre is playing a vital role in engaging audiences.

This moment is marked by rising temperatures, escalating impacts of change on communities and ecosystems, but also by the unprecedented call to arms to storytellers at COP30 in 2025. The need for new stories that help audiences grapple with the realities and possibilities of this crisis has never been clearer. 

In order to surface the breadth and diversity of new stories about this planetary moment, the Climate Playwriting Prize is an open invitation to playwrights to respond creatively to this subject matter. We are partnering with organisations all around the country to deliver workshops to writers, unlocking how they might want to tell their climate story.

#Playwright #playwrighting #playwriting #climatestorytelling #climatestories #climateaction #shakespearesglobe #GlobeTheatre

https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/jobs-and-opportunities/climate-playwriting-prize-2026/

Calling all #climate conscious #playwrights!

The Climate Playwriting Prize 2026 | Discover | Shakespeare's Globe

We believe that playwrights have a vital role to play in the conversation around the climate. Theatre is a space for animating audiences, forming communities, and experimenting with form; a space for processing the past, articulating the present, and imagining the future. Beyond the West End, regional and touring theatre is playing a vital role in engaging audiences.

This moment is marked by rising temperatures, escalating impacts of change on communities and ecosystems, but also by the unprecedented call to arms to storytellers at COP30 in 2025. The need for new stories that help audiences grapple with the realities and possibilities of this crisis has never been clearer. 

In order to surface the breadth and diversity of new stories about this planetary moment, the Climate Playwriting Prize is an open invitation to playwrights to respond creatively to this subject matter. We are partnering with organisations all around the country to deliver workshops to writers, unlocking how they might want to tell their climate story.

#Playwright #playwrighting #playwriting #climatestorytelling #climatestories #climateaction #shakespearesglobe #GlobeTheatre

https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/jobs-and-opportunities/climate-playwriting-prize-2026/

Calling all #climate conscious #playwrights!

The Climate Playwriting Prize 2026 | Discover | Shakespeare's Globe

We believe that playwrights have a vital role to play in the conversation around the climate. Theatre is a space for animating audiences, forming communities, and experimenting with form; a space for processing the past, articulating the present, and imagining the future. Beyond the West End, regional and touring theatre is playing a vital role in engaging audiences.

This moment is marked by rising temperatures, escalating impacts of change on communities and ecosystems, but also by the unprecedented call to arms to storytellers at COP30 in 2025. The need for new stories that help audiences grapple with the realities and possibilities of this crisis has never been clearer. 

In order to surface the breadth and diversity of new stories about this planetary moment, the Climate Playwriting Prize is an open invitation to playwrights to respond creatively to this subject matter. We are partnering with organisations all around the country to deliver workshops to writers, unlocking how they might want to tell their climate story.

#Playwright #playwrighting #playwriting #climatestorytelling #climatestories #climateaction #shakespearesglobe #GlobeTheatre

https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/jobs-and-opportunities/climate-playwriting-prize-2026/

Art is never finished, but deadlines still matter. in my blog, I write about how my full-length play "Banshee" goes through more changes before rehearsals start.
#theater #playwriting #revisions #WritingLife

http://adam-richter.com/2026/02/26/the-annoying-art-of-revision/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Finished that short play I started this week, REVOLUTION ON ICE. 25 pages. Three characters, one of them autistic.

This was not exactly the play I started out to write. I was going for a Bunuel kind of thing but it turned out more...traditional?

Still, I'm proud of how it turned out. Got to use Sonic the Hedgehog as a metaphor.

I think I'll try again to write what I intended. Maybe it will be easier since I got this one out of my system.

#writing #theater #playwriting

I've been reading the plays and a biography of Bertolt Brecht. Such a fascinating man and story. This is a good documentary about his life in exile:

https://youtu.be/CQJC0M3oN00?si=0KV_ucrNwx1xkcxM

#Brecht #BertoltBrecht #theater #PlayWriting #nazis #Germany #history #EpicTheater #socialism #WWII

"I had a sense of obligation to these creatures that likely gave their lives for testing the device implanted in my heart."

Kristin Idaszak for The American Scholar: https://theamericanscholar.org/blood-blue-sky/

#Longreads #Essay #ClimateCrisis #ChronicIllness #Heart #HorseshoeCrab #Animals #Grief #Medicine #Playwriting

Three ways writing code is like writing theatre (and one way it’s not)

https://emilyvhs.com/three-ways-writing-code-is-like-writing-theatre-and-one-way-its-not/

#software #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #playwright #playwriting

Trans and Gender Nonconforming playwrights! Apply to the Trans History Project from Baltimore Center Stage and other theaters around the US. Deadline May 11

https://www.centerstage.org/trans-history-project

#playwriting #trans

“Still Stuck” from ei hytte (the cabin), an a cappella musical

Concert reading at Steppenwolf Theatre. 2024 Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. Kokandy Productions.

#musicals #theatre #playwriting #composer #TheatreSky

https://youtu.be/emxogKXWLKQ?si=TojNunFY2dKsh7OV

“One Pig” from Pigasus: A Ten-Minute Musical

Short and sweet. Pig jokes don’t have a long shelf life.

#musical #theatre #playwriting #songwriting

https://youtu.be/6IgrjkYSlO8?si=WEPaxGfwgtgXIK7m

Posting information about my plays to my website, adam-richter.com. 'The Conscience of the King' is a prequel to 'Hamlet' and looks at Claudius with a bit more sympathy
#Theater #Playwriting

http://adam-richter.com/?p=2626

“This Town” from Down & Out in Rocky Heights, performed by the Berklee College of Music Staged Reading Ensemble. Boston, December 2024.

Looking to workshop this one again soon. Hit me up!

#musicaltheatre #musicals #playwriting #music #theatre

https://youtu.be/0XjOcmuhpV8?si=YVl9VtxOB5k_wQN3

My new play, co-written with four amazing improv actors, premieres at the Reading Theater Project's 5-Minute Fringe Festival from Feb. 27-March 2. Come check out "Made-Up Stories About My Ancestors" along with about a dozen other new and brilliant works!
https://rtp.ticketleap.com/
#Theater #playwriting

Jan 9 deadline for applications for a playwriting residency with the Hugo Burge Foundation in Berwickshire. Private studio, onsite accommodation and £350 weekly stipend ending in a rehearsed reading at Duns Playfest 2025

#Theatre #NewWriting #DunsPlayfest #Residency #PlayWriting #ScottishBorders
https://www.hugoburgefoundation.org/residencies

What’s your first book of the year? I’m reading the play August: Osage County by Tracy Letts. Loved the film with Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts and am planning to expand a short play of mine this year.

#bookstodon #playwrite #writers #readers #readersofmastodon #writersofmastodon #playwriting #playwriter #tracyletts #bookworm #bookcommunity #reading #books2025 #newyearnewbooks #bookish #bibliophile

Working on my first full-length play. Added a new character, but she's not working out and I think I have to remove her. Now I'm changing the personality of one of the other characters to ramp things up. Rewrites take some of the fun out of being creative -- but it's also like working on a jigsaw puzzle, finding the right pieces to make the whole picture work.

#creativewriting #playwriting #theatre

Good morning, #WritingCommunity. Paused revising my current #WIP to start a new short piece. Goal is to have new draft done by tomorrow.
How’s your writing going?
#AmWriting
#Playwriting

Good morning, #5amWritersClub. Managed to get a few pages in before painting my main character into a corner. How is your #WIP coming?
#AmWriting #Playwriting #WritersOfMastodon

Now that it's October, I'm going to shamelessly promote my minor collection of Halloween-adjacent plays.

"Colleen's Outer Demon" is a delightful tale of a woman, a headless demon and a suburban shopping mall. Are there puppets in this play? That's up to the producer.
https://newplayexchange.org/system/files/field_play_current_draft/Colleens_Outer_Demon_0728_NPX.pdf
#playwriting #theater #halloween #PlaywrightsOfMastodon

UMKC Theatre is a graduate and undergraduate #academicDepartment of the #UniversityOfMissouriKansasCity (UMKC) that provides both educational and professional training in multiple areas of theatrical production, including #acting, #scenicDesign, #lightingDesign, #costumeDesign, #soundDesign, #dramaturgy and historical research, #playwriting, and #stageManagement, and maintains a strong connection with the #KansasCityRepertoryTheatre (KCRT), the leading #regionalTheatre in the Kansas City area.

UMKC Theatre is a graduate and undergraduate #academicDepartment of the #UniversityOfMissouriKansasCity (UMKC) that provides both educational and professional training in multiple areas of theatrical production, including #acting, #scenicDesign, #lightingDesign, #costumeDesign, #soundDesign, #dramaturgy and historical research, #playwriting, and #stageManagement, and maintains a strong connection with the #KansasCityRepertoryTheatre (KCRT), the leading #regionalTheatre in the Kansas City area.

UMKC Theatre is a graduate and undergraduate #academicDepartment of the #UniversityOfMissouriKansasCity (UMKC) that provides both educational and professional training in multiple areas of theatrical production, including #acting, #scenicDesign, #lightingDesign, #costumeDesign, #soundDesign, #dramaturgy and historical research, #playwriting, and #stageManagement, and maintains a strong connection with the #KansasCityRepertoryTheatre (KCRT), the leading #regionalTheatre in the Kansas City area.

ei hytte (the cabin), an a cappella musical
Book, Music and Lyrics by Eric Matthew Richardson
Directed by Noah Watkins

During an unseasonable blizzard, two strangers become trapped inside one of Norway's many off-grid public cabins. Without access to electricity, phone or internet service, the hikers wait out the storm. Veronica is a true crime author, and Colin is a warehouse worker. Neither are inclined to reveal too much about their personal lives beyond that. Pressured by the forces of the unseen Valkyries, the strangers push each other to their breaking points.

#musicals #musicaltheatre #musical #theater #theatre #chicago #acappella #playwriting #Steppenwolf #festival #newplay #writing

ei hytte (the cabin), an a cappella musical
Book, Music and Lyrics by Eric Matthew Richardson
Directed by Noah Watkins

During an unseasonable blizzard, two strangers become trapped inside one of Norway's many off-grid public cabins. Without access to electricity, phone or internet service, the hikers wait out the storm. Veronica is a true crime author, and Colin is a warehouse worker. Neither are inclined to reveal too much about their personal lives beyond that. Pressured by the forces of the unseen Valkyries, the strangers push each other to their breaking points.

#musicals #musicaltheatre #musical #theater #theatre #chicago #acappella #playwriting #Steppenwolf #festival #newplay #writing

ei hytte (the cabin), an a cappella musical
Book, Music and Lyrics by Eric Matthew Richardson
Directed by Noah Watkins

During an unseasonable blizzard, two strangers become trapped inside one of Norway's many off-grid public cabins. Without access to electricity, phone or internet service, the hikers wait out the storm. Veronica is a true crime author, and Colin is a warehouse worker. Neither are inclined to reveal too much about their personal lives beyond that. Pressured by the forces of the unseen Valkyries, the strangers push each other to their breaking points.

#musicals #musicaltheatre #musical #theater #theatre #chicago #acappella #playwriting #Steppenwolf #festival #newplay #writing

ei hytte (the cabin), an a cappella musical
Book, Music and Lyrics by Eric Matthew Richardson
Directed by Noah Watkins

During an unseasonable blizzard, two strangers become trapped inside one of Norway's many off-grid public cabins. Without access to electricity, phone or internet service, the hikers wait out the storm. Veronica is a true crime author, and Colin is a warehouse worker. Neither are inclined to reveal too much about their personal lives beyond that. Pressured by the forces of the unseen Valkyries, the strangers push each other to their breaking points.

#musicals #musicaltheatre #musical #theater #theatre #chicago #acappella #playwriting #Steppenwolf #festival #newplay #writing

ei hytte (the cabin), an a cappella musical
Book, Music and Lyrics by Eric Matthew Richardson
Directed by Noah Watkins

During an unseasonable blizzard, two strangers become trapped inside one of Norway's many off-grid public cabins. Without access to electricity, phone or internet service, the hikers wait out the storm. Veronica is a true crime author, and Colin is a warehouse worker. Neither are inclined to reveal too much about their personal lives beyond that. Pressured by the forces of the unseen Valkyries, the strangers push each other to their breaking points.

#musicals #musicaltheatre #musical #theater #theatre #chicago #acappella #playwriting #Steppenwolf #festival #newplay #writing

Happy to announce that my a cappella musical "ei hytte (the cabin)” will be performed on Saturday, August 10th at 8pm as part of the Chicago Musical Theatre Festival at Steppenwolf!

Tickets available here: https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets--events/lookout/24-summer/chicago-musical-theatre-festival/

#musicals #musicaltheatre #musical #theater #theatre #chicago #acappella #playwriting #Steppenwolf #festival #newplay #writing

Happy to announce that my a cappella musical "ei hytte (the cabin)” will be performed on Saturday, August 10th at 8pm as part of the Chicago Musical Theatre Festival at Steppenwolf!

Tickets available here: https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets--events/lookout/24-summer/chicago-musical-theatre-festival/

#musicals #musicaltheatre #musical #theater #theatre #chicago #acappella #playwriting #Steppenwolf #festival #newplay #writing

Happy to announce that my a cappella musical "ei hytte (the cabin)” will be performed on Saturday, August 10th at 8pm as part of the Chicago Musical Theatre Festival at Steppenwolf!

Tickets available here: https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets--events/lookout/24-summer/chicago-musical-theatre-festival/

#musicals #musicaltheatre #musical #theater #theatre #chicago #acappella #playwriting #Steppenwolf #festival #newplay #writing

Happy to announce that my a cappella musical "ei hytte (the cabin)” will be performed on Saturday, August 10th at 8pm as part of the Chicago Musical Theatre Festival at Steppenwolf!

Tickets available here: https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets--events/lookout/24-summer/chicago-musical-theatre-festival/

#musicals #musicaltheatre #musical #theater #theatre #chicago #acappella #playwriting #Steppenwolf #festival #newplay #writing

Happy to announce that my a cappella musical "ei hytte (the cabin)” will be performed on Saturday, August 10th at 8pm as part of the Chicago Musical Theatre Festival at Steppenwolf!

Tickets available here: https://www.steppenwolf.org/tickets--events/lookout/24-summer/chicago-musical-theatre-festival/

#musicals #musicaltheatre #musical #theater #theatre #chicago #acappella #playwriting #Steppenwolf #festival #newplay #writing

TFW you revise a 10-minute play to meet a submission opportunity's guidelines only to realize it's supposed to be a full-length play. And it's due tomorrow. 🤦

#AmWriting #WritingLife #Playwriting

I enjoy NPX for what it is but it's not super conducive to musical theatre. And I'm not quite sure how to fix that, especially when it comes to works in development. Cold reading a musical is so much more difficult than reading a play.

Maybe there's a new format that can be explored. Hyperlinking demos might be a start. It would be nice to have some sort of built-in media player as well.

#playwriting #musicaltheatre #NPX #musical #Musicals #Theatre #theater

The Native Voices Anthology is now available for pre-order. It is coming out this summer. I’m one of 38 authors represented. My play “A Time For Dolls” will be included. It’s a coming of age story about a young Inuk and her mother.

https://www.kinsmanquarterly.org/featured-book-product @indigenousauthors #playwriting #AuthorsOnMastodon #anthology #WritingCommunity #IndigenousMastodon

Time for a victory sip. Congratulations to all the writers out there who completed #28PlaysLater (29 Plays Later this year).
#AmWriting #Playwriting

Time for a victory sip. Congratulations to all the writers out there who completed #28PlaysLater (29 Plays Later this year).
#AmWriting #Playwriting

Time for a victory sip. Congratulations to all the writers out there who completed #28PlaysLater (29 Plays Later this year).
#AmWriting #Playwriting

Ok, After the meeting I had today I've got two theatres interested in my play, but I won't find out if I've got my #ArtsCouncilEngland funding until next month. Nearly there!

#playwriting #theatre #writing #london

For historical reasons, I mostly use #Markdown for my writing, although I've started to use #AsciiDoc (through #AsciiDoctor) more and more these days.

One of the things I #amWriting is intended to be in a more “playwright” style, so I've been looking around for stuff more focused on #playwriting (for either theater or screen, I'm not picky at the moment.).

So I came across #FountainIO
https://fountain.io/ which is actually … pretty close to what I was thinking about.

Today in archival research #playwriting #boulder #dogs #stbernard date circa 1902-1904

I was going to write a blog post about my experience with #28PlaysLater but I have nothing to add that I didn’t say in this post from 2021. I hope you find it useful.
https://adam-richter.com/2021/03/01/5-things-i-learned-from-writing-a-play-every-day-in-february/

#AmWriting #Playwriting #Creativity