Author Insights

Our writers on the ideas, histories, and questions behind their scripts. Search by show or writer.

The Beating Heart: How Grief Gave The Spellbinders Its Magic Standing on Her Shoulders: Adapting Susan Glaspell's Trifles Hope in a Doll's Letters Wonderful Things: The Giant Hoax Something in the Air: Writing The Nose Finding the Music in Pride and Prejudice Story as Healing and Imagination Red Days and the Air We Share The Maze of Why Finding Voice in the Midst of Grief The Journey Is the Story: Adapting Homer's The Odyssey A Darker Carol: Finding Empathy in The Haunting of Ebenezer Scrooge Anyone Can Be a Hero: Theatre, History, and Orphan Train Seeing and Being Seen: Reflections from the Author of Sightings When Americans Became Suspect: The World of Fire in a Dark House When Innocence Ends: Growing Up in the Dark Finding Your Voice Together Friendship at the End of the World Herstory in the Spotlight: An Author’s Journey with Sentinels Folktales and Fair Play: The Long Leather Bag Behind the Scenes with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight A Universe of Our Own: Germaine Shames Reflects on Year of Thirteen Moons Behind the Snow Globe: Paul Lewis on The Lion on the Left Turning Childhood Play Into Theatrical Magic “You Always Have a Choice”: Life-Giving Connection Amidst the Deadly Horrors of Online Life The Exposed Heart: A Dramatist's Take on Teenagers, Technology, and Trust The Beauty of Letting Go Making Shakespeare Personal Stop-n-Go and the Art of Growing Up Haunted by High School Reconstitution: a founding debate for a fractured America The Answer Key to "Answer Key" Staging Rebellion: The Power of Protest in The Trial of Mother Jones Finding Light in the Gutter On the Origins of Techies: A Note from the Playwright On Writing The Wizard Delivers: A Note from the Playwright Adaptation Is a Stance: Reimagining Shakespeare’s Coriolanus What Is Art? Wrestling with Big Questions in the High School Classroom Speaking Up, Standing Strong: The Story Behind Be Like Water History, Activism, and Theatre: Bringing the 19th Amendment to Life Trust Issues: Stranger Danger in the Digital Age The Monsters Inside: Vampirism and Social Media Teaching Cosmic Horror with Inner Sanctum Addicted to the Void: Descent into Virtual Madness in Inner Sanctum Mind Hack: Digital Autonomy and Corporate Malfeasance in The Ghost Your Brain, Encoded: Moral Questions of Digital Consciousness in The Ghost Revenge 101: Reimagining Macbeth into a High School Dark Comedy Murder by Misinformation: How Social Media Misinformation Fuels Conspiracy Theories: Insights from Sybil Murder 2.0: How Social Media and Technology are Transforming the Modern Murder Mystery in Sybil The Heart and Soul of Chickens Making Fairytales Take Flight: The Goosegirl as Adaptation Exploring Fame, Race, and Cultural Appropriation in When Elvis Met Ali: If I Can Dream The Weird World of D. P. Roberts