“The anglophone playwriting book market thrives on a variety of manuals that naturalize hegeturgy as the toolkit of the field, without which a playwright cannot write “good” plays. This publication contributes to opening an important window that allows us to peek into other scenarios and redefine playwriting for ourselves.”
“...this collection points to the need to continue making more room in “official spaces” (such as academia) for ideas and practices that disrupt the ideological norm that informs
theatrical apparatuses in the Global North. By legitimizing these counterhegemonic efforts through scholarship, the editors and authors are making an important step toward the redefinition of the playwriting field. Hopefully many more works like this will follow.”
Les Hunter, Carolyn Dunn, Sarah Johnson, and Hank Wilibrink
MATC
Mid-Atlantic Theatre Conference
March 7, 2024
Pedagogy Symposium 6: Room 232
“Decentered Playwriting in the Classroom”
Chair: Collin Vorbeck, Blackburn College
“Breaking, Examining, Reassembling: An Introduction to Decentered Playwriting”
Les Hunter, Baldwin Wallace University
Eric Micha Holmes, Goddard College
“Playwrights as Architects of Third Space”
Sarah Johnson, Indiana University - Bloomington
“Disaesthetics in Hip Hop Dramaturgy: Ruminations on Thinking and Doing”
Wind Woods, University of Puget Sound
“First People First: Community-based Theatre Praxis in Native American and Indigenous Spaces”
Carolyn Dunn, Cal State - Los Angeles
Book Launch
Eric Micha Holmes, Carolyn Dunn, Christine Scarfuto, and Les Hunter
March 5, 2024
The Drama Bookshop
New York, NY
IDecentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the Stage,Book Launch Panel
Presented by The Drama Book Shop, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications and the Dramatists Guild of America.
