News — Playwriting

In honor of the Bard's birthday find out how Shakespeare continues to inspire Stage Partners playwrights and theatre teachers alike.

Playwrights Rocco Natale and Jason Pizzarello teamed up to write the hilarious one-act comedy The Cast List. Find out what inspired them to bring the casting process out of the audition room and onto the stage in this interview with Stage Partners Education Director Maria McConville.

Theater teacher and playwright Nina Mansfield talks about her virtual adaptation of an ancient classic, ANTIGONE: 3021, with Stage Partners Education Director Maria McConville. Find out how Mansfield adjusted her Fall Play to a virtual setting and what she thinks about this new way of creating theater. Photos from the Harrison High School production of Anitgone: 3021, Directed by Nina Haberli An Interview with Playwright Nina Mansfield: STAGE PARTNERS: Before the pandemic, was Antigone the play planned for Spring 2020 with your students? NINA MANSFIELD: Our Spring show is always a student directed play, and last year the students had...

Walk into just about any theatre classroom in the country (or in the world) and you're going to see one thing right away: There are more girls than boys. Playwright Don Zolidis shares his approach for adapting Shakespeare for young actors and writing for girls in this final installment of his Playwriting Principles series.

Playwright and Teaching Artist Will Quam talks about his new play REUNION (AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD) with Education Director, Maria McConville. Find out Quam’s inspiration for this beautiful full-length drama that explores the resilience of children in the face of the unimaginable. An Interview with Playwright Will Quam: STAGE PARTNERS: What was the inspiration for this world and what compelled you to write this play? WILL QUAM: In college I read Giovanni Boccacio’s The Decameron, a book of stories told by Florentine nobles as they hide from the plague in a rural villa. Boccacio uses the stories to...