It’s a two-for-one episode! In the spirit of the 2021 Plays By Young Writers Festival, Tori and Mabelle talk with Jordan Marie Finley, two-time winner of Playwrights Project’s annual California Young Playwrights Contest. Jordan shares her journey into playwriting and the inspiration for her plays, as well as how a Twitter post led to front […]
Tori and Mabelle talk with Cygnet Theatre’s Associate Artistic Director, accomplished theatre-maker and all-around beautiful human being, Robby Lutfy. Robby shares his approach to reading plays through multiple judgement-free reads using his *vomit writing* free-writes to lift the rocks created by the playwright. Robby discusses wrestling with his own artistic mission statement by taking the […]
Tori and Mabelle host the second Hey Playwright festival — V-Minute Valentines. Listen to the whole show of love-filled short plays. Though there is no prompt for this episode, we hope it’ll inspire you to write something to do with love connections (and lack thereof). Go to show notes.
On Saturday, February 13, 2021, we had a magical night where we got to experience the wonderful works of nine playwrights. They brought us joy, laughter, and hope. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did.
LISTEN to episode Tori and Mabelle talk with triple threat actress, playwright and teaching artist, Aleta Barthell. Aleta reveals how she connects historical moments with current events through magical realism in her plays Window of Shame (Finalist, 2020 National Playwrights Conference, O’Neill Theater Center; Finalist, HUMANITAS/CTG Playwriting Prize), Walking Down the Corn, and Night Witches: […]
We are doing another festival just in time for Valentines Day! Join us on Saturday, February 13, 2021 for the V-Minute Valentines Festival. The winning scripts will be performed live on Zoom at 7PM PT. To register (it’s FREE), click here. Thank you to all of the wonderful playwrights who submitted. (Scroll down to see […]
LISTEN to episode Tori and Mabelle talk with the multi-talented powerhouse, Colette Freedman. Colette shares her journey from her first 10-minute play to internationally produced playwright, and the value of writing with passion and the intention to get your work out in the world (and off of the computer!). She also drops advice that led […]
LISTEN to episode Season 2 is here! Tori and Mabelle dive into Season 2 with a check-in of their 90-Day Play experiment; shoes as the dangling carrot for finishing pages’ favorite love stories AND an invitation to submit to the next Hey Playwright contest, V-Minute Valentines! Go to show notes.
Are you new to Hey Playwright?!?!?! Welcome! If you feel like catching up, here are all our episodes. And if you’ve been here a while and want to listen to our episodes again (hi, Mom), here you go. Get ready. Season 2 is coming… Episode 012 – Tori and Mabelle round out their 12-episode season […]
We can’t think of a better time to kickstart your journey as a playwright than right now, smack dab in the middle of a pandemic, when life in theatre and other performing arts has come to a screeching halt… or has it? Broadway might be dark, but we, the everyperson playwrights carry on, keep writing […]