PRESS RELEASE: LOS ANGELES– Playwright D.W. Gregory, author of Radium Girls and Memoirs of a Forgotten Man, has been included in a video wiki “Seven Talented Contemporary Playwrights,” by Ezvid Wiki. The seven featured writers are: Jacqueline E. Lawton, Jen Silverman, Gwydion Suilebhan, D.W. Gregory, Matthew Paul Olmos, Madhuri Shekar, and Anne Garcia-Romero. Gregory is […]
On March 15, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey will feature a reading of Salvation Road as part of its ‘Forum Soundings’ series, focused on youth-centered theatre. This is the latest step in an ongoing development process for the play, which originated as a one-act at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in 2009, was workshopped at New York University and […]
Having seen the second production of Salvation Road—third if you count the original one-act at the Philly Fringe in 2009—I have now received the kind of vindication every playwright craves: I know my script stands up. With two different casts in two radically different incarnations—David Montgomery’s production at New York University featured original […]
Salvation Road‘s run at the Steinhardt School of New York University ended abruptly with the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29. Compared to the loss of life, injury, damage to property, chaos and disruption visited upon the good people of Manhattan–one friend I know of is still without heat two weeks later–curtailing the run […]
Salvation Road opens tonight with a cast of thousands …. It has been a long process developing this play, a comic drama about a boy searching for a sister who has disappeared into a fundamentalist cult. Originally a one-act for three actors (hated that version) the play underwent a massive rewrite in the […]
Salvation Road opens at New York University’s Black Box Theatre on Oct. 26. Tickets are now on sale and can be obtained online at www.nyu.edu/ticketcentral/calendar, or by calling 212-352-3101. Admission is $15 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors. The show runs from Oct. 26 through the following weekend with performances at 8 […]
The prolific Adam Szymkowicz is famously prolific in another way—interviewing other playwrights for his blog–and today he honors me as writer No. 484 on a venerable list that includes, among others–yes I’m bragging, yes I am, so what?–Liz Duffy Adams, Lonnie Carter, Kia Corthron, Julia Jordan, Rajiv Joseph, and of course my lovely and wonderful Jacqueline E. […]
Working on a new play is always a challenge in isolation. After successive drafts, you reach a point where you lose the path forward—or worse, where the path splits into a dozen different trails and there is no clear indication which one is the right one to follow. That is the point, for me, when […]
In the summer of 1974, over the objections of my parents, my sister G. and her friend D. set off on a long bicycle trip to New England. Their ambition was adventure and a much needed change of scenery from the dead-end job she had been working in central Pennsylvania. My parents feared for […]
