Regional Digest: Week of October 29
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NEW YORK CITY
Playwrights Welcome invites you to
Sakina’s Restaurant
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November 1 - November 11
Audible Theatre @ Minetta Lane Theatre
18 Minetta Lane
New York, NY, 10012
Playwrights Welcome at the Minetta Lane was recently launched specifically for the run of
Sakina’s Restaurant
by Aasif Mandvi. This offer is available through November 11.
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Saturday November 3
4pm-6pm
Houston DG members, and their friends, are invited to an informal meeting at Will Duell’s house on November 3. Attendees will meet visiting playwright Robert Clyman (
Secret Order, Trance, The Exceptionals
), and Houston’s new Dramatists Guild Outreach Ambassador, Eric Christopher Jones, as well as several local artistic directors.
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NEW YORK CITY
Memorial Celebrating the Life of DG Member Thomas Meehan
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Monday Nov 5
2pm-3pm
St. James Theatre
246 West 44th St
New York, NY 10036
The Broadway community will celebrate the life of Thomas Meehan on Monday, November 5 at 2pm at the St. James Theatre. This event will be hosted by Martin Charnin, Mr. Meehan's longtime collaborator. The celebration will be open to the public. RSVP
HERE
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BALTIMORE
Footlights Reading
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Saturday November 10
2pm-4pm
Strand Theatre
5426 Hartford Rd
Baltimore, MD 21214
Dramatists Guild members, and their friends, are invited to attend a reading of
Flu
, a new play by Rich Espey. Depressed by his ex-wife’s stunning online fame, English teacher and sometime-poet John Wagner enlists his tech-savvy student Bunny’s help to “go viral” himself. John struggles along this journey, meeting disaffected students, a smarmy talk-show host, and Emily Dickinson herself. It all goes horribly wrong, until an unexpected gift lights the way.
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MICHIGAN
Playwrights Lab and Meet and Greet
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Monday November 12
7pm-9pm
Detroit Repertory Theatre
13103 Woodrow Wilson St
Detroit, MI, 48238
Come to a Synopsis Workshop and Meet and Greet at Playwrights Lab. Participants will have the opportunity to bring a 200 word synopsis of one of their plays for feedback. This gathering will be an excellent way for playwrights to strengthen their synopsis writing skills for more effective submissions, and to discover how to connect their work with a national audience.
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NEW YORK CITY
DG Night at
Dishwasher Dreams
by Aladdin Ullah
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Thursday November 15
6:30pm-9:30pm
Castillo Theatre
543 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036
Come kick off our first NYC Regional Dramatists Guild Playwright Event at
Dishwasher Dreams
, written and directed by two DG members. There will be a hello hang out with writer Aladdin Ullah and director Gabriel Vega Weissman at 6:30pm, prior to the 7:30pm show (for which we have a group discount).
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NEW ENGLAND EAST
Marketing Tips and Strategies for New England Playwrights
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Saturday November 17
10am-12pm
St. James Place
352 Main Street
Great Barrington, MA 01230
Join New England Regional Rep Patrick Gabridge for a talk about marketing, with a special focus on opportunities for New England writers. Patrick is the founder of the Playwright Submission Binge, the creator and initial publisher of Market InSight for Playwrights, and the co-founder and coordinator of the New England New Play Alliance. He’s been helping playwrights market their work for more than 25 years.
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CHICAGO
Online Title Workshop: What’s in a Name?
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Monday November 19
7pm-8pm
Join DG members, in the Chicago Region, for a special online title workshop with Ryan Cunningham, a DG Member, award-winning writer, and Creative Director for the Broadway advertising agency AKA. Discover the ways in which the title of your work is the audience’s entry point, and how an effective title can not only sell tickets, but begin the author’s conversation with the audience.
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