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The Dramatists Guild Presents: TALKBACK, sponsored by the Dramatists Guild Foundation - Where Art, Community, and Inclusion Meet.
After a 2-year hiatus, we're back! Welcome to Season 6!
Over the course of seven episodes, host Christine Toy Johnson and special industry guests explore the many ways they are navigating the current moment, reinventing their relationship to financial literacy, the state of new play development, longevity in the field, and more.
After a 2-year hiatus, we're back! Welcome to Season 6!
Over the course of seven episodes, host Christine Toy Johnson and special industry guests explore the many ways they are navigating the current moment, reinventing their relationship to financial literacy, the state of new play development, longevity in the field, and more.
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English
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42 episodes
since Oct. 2, 2019
episodic
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Welcome to our final episode of Season 6.
We’ve had so many conversations this season about how writers get paid – or not. So in this episode, Christine talks to the Guild’s Executive Director of Business Affairs, Ralph Sevush, to clarify some questions that have come up and to give us his expert…
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In part 2 of Christine's conversation with Amanda Green and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, they continue to dish the dish on demystifying compensation, holding on to inspiration, and more.
Amanda Green is a 2-time Tony nominated, Grammy nominated lyricist and composer, and the first female President of …
Christine talks to another fellow Guild Council member and pioneer, David Henry Hwang. In this episode they discuss how naming some of his characters after himself changed David's perspective on telling his own story, breaking the cycle of Asian Americans portrayed as “perpetual foreigners” on Broa…
In this episode, Christine sits down with another one of her fellow Guild officers, Kristoffer Diaz, to talk about what it takes for a theatre writer to make a living, some of the nitty gritty on how writers get paid on Broadway, and keeping grounded in spite of the unpredictable nature of the thea…
In this episode, Christine talks with ground-breaking pioneer and fellow Dramatists Guild Council member Gretchen Cryer about longevity in the field, how development of new musicals has changed over her decades long career, and how she keeps going!
Gretchen Cryer has been breaking barriers since s…
In this episode, host Christine Toy Johnson talks to award-winning playwright Lloyd Suh about his “speculative future” plays, uplifting other writers through service, and the shift in new play development.
Lloyd Suh’s works include The Chinese Lady, The Heart Sellers and the Pulitzer finalist The …
In this episode, host Christine Toy Johnson talks to award-winning playwright Lloyd Suh about his "speculative future" plays, uplifting other writers through service, and the shift in new play development.
Lloyd Suh’s works include The Chinese Lady, The Heart Sellers and the Pulitzer finalist The …
We're back! This season is all about "Reinvention".
With so much change going on in our industry and our country, host Christine Toy Johnson wanted to sit down with some of her fellow writers who also serve on the Dramatists Guild Council, and ask them about the many ways they are thriving and wri…
We're giving you a special gift for the holidays. A never before released live episode that we did at BroadwayCon in New York City in July of 2023. I had the great joy of sitting down with my longtime pal and colleague, Danny Burstein. Danny is a treasured and prolific actor on film, television, an…
This season's final episode features a conversation with two of the most produced playwrights in America: Lauren Gunderson and Lynn Nottage. The two women writers speak with host (and fellow woman writer) Christine Toy Johnson about how they were motivated to start telling stories in order to creat…
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