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Memoirs of a Forgotten Man
Long before fake news was a trending topic, it was called propaganda. And in the Soviet Union, circa 1938, it was the grease that kept Stalin’s machinery of terror in motion.
Radium Girls
The original award-winning drama based on the true story. In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease.
Radium Girls Is Among Top 20 Produced Plays in 2025
With more than 350 productions last year, RADIUM GIRLS is among the 20 most produced plays in the U.S., according to Playbill Magazine. Written by D.W. Gregory and published by Dramatic Publishing, Radium Girls has been a steady favorite among U.S. high schools, colleges, and community theaters for more than ten years. “This is a […]
Salvation Road
Two guys. One rusted out Honda. Twenty-four hours to separate a girl from her guru. The road to Hell was never more fun.
The Other American
A chance encounter in a Paris cafe catapults an American art student into one of the darkest chapters of the Cold War.
The Yellow Stocking Play
D.W. Gregory, author of Radium Girls and Salvation Road. The music and lyrics are by writing team Steven M. Alper & Sarah Knapp, whose musical version of Mark Harelik’s The Immigrant received two Drama Desk award nominations when it was produced off-Broadway.
As A Teaching Artist
D.W. will be in attendance at the Southeastern Theater Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, March 3 – 7. On March 6, she will offer a workshop, Turning Points in Drama, at 10:30 a.m.
Join her as we explore one of the most terrifying concepts in playwright — structure! What is it and how can you make it work for you? Come find out.
Award-winning playwright D.W. Gregory will teach two playwriting workshops at the International Thespian Festival at Indiana University-Bloomington, June 21-26.
She will teach Cracking the Ten-Minute Play – Strategies for Writing and Teaching the Short Form on June 22 and The Well-Developed Scene: Getting Inside Your Character, on June 23.
Gregory is best known for her drama Radium Girls (Dramatic Publishing), which has received nearly 3,000 productions around the U.S. and abroad and is among the ten most produced plays in U.S. high schools. In 2025, Playbill magazine listed it among the 20 most produced plays in the U.S.
She is also the author of other works for high school actors, including Salvation Road and Penny
Candy, both published by Dramatic Publishing, and for middle schools, Secret Lives of Toads
(Dramatic Publishing) and Miracle in Mudville, from YouthPLAYS.com.
The ITF is an annual conference of the International Thespian Society, a theatre honor society for middle and high school students in the United States and Canada.
Held annually since 1941, the festival accommodates more than 4,500 participants. With a focus on performance, technical theatre and education, the festival includes full-length high school productions on the Main Stage as well as workshops led by industry professionals.
The festival is produced by the Educational Theatre Association, which is the parent organization of the International Thespian Society. Held on the Indiana University campus, it will move to Louisville, Kentucky, in 2027 to accommodate growth to 5,000 attendees.
