#the dramatist

[onlinedepartmentofnarration]

The Narration Office Staff Directory

The Storyteller "Karlan" (Stanley Parable)

The Curator "Cadence" (Stanley Parable)

The Gamemaker "Pascha" (There Is No Game)

The Global Network "Gigi" (There Is No Game)

The Tester "Andrew" (Dude Stop!)

The Doctor "Glenn" (Superliminal)

The Manager "Cyrus" (Dr Langeskov, The Tiger, And The Terribly Cursed Emerald)

The Insister "Jean" (Slay The Princess)

The Dramatist "Donovan" (The Unique Adventure)

The Instructor "Smith" (Accounting Plus)

The Yesman "Smitherson" (Accounting Plus)

The Soother "Clovis" (Accounting Plus)

The Satirist "Brian" (The Narrator Is A Dick)

The Beginner "Jack" (The Corridor)

Narration Subjects

Stanley (The Stanley Parable)

Mariella (The Stanley Parable)

Nico "User" (There Is No Game)

Mal "Subject 17" (Dude Stop!)

Solomon (Superliminal)

Kasey "Player" (Dr Langeskov, The Tiger, And The Terribly Cursed Emerald)

Quinn (Slay The Princess)

Bob (The Unique Adventure)

Scot "Scooter" (Accounting Plus)

James (The Narrator Is A Dick)

Monica (The Corridor)

Incarcerated For Narrative Crimes

The Adventure Line™ (The Stanley Parable)

Employee 432 (The Stanley Parable)

Mr. Glitch (There Is No Game)

The Voices (Slay The Princess)

The Clown (Accounting Plus)

Cardboard Man (The Corridor)

Now Hiring Narrators!

[joeystocks]

My photography: playwright Charles L. White photographed for The Dramatist. Copyright 2022 by Joey Stocks

[dramatistsguild]

Hansberry poster/zine now available

Dramatists Guild of America's new #LorraineHansberryposter/zine is now on the stand at The Drama Book Shop. Drop in, get one, then show me where you display yours!

[d-criss-news]

blaemire: A LITTLE MORE ALIVE

[autumnsup]

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒: 𝑔𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡, 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ "𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 + 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒," 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑥 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑔 𝑠𝑖𝑥 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒.

I don't have a Pinterest account and ended up screenshotting a bunch of these, but what an interesting exercise in self-discovery (of sorts). Thanks for the tag, @mangle-my-mind!

No pressure tags: @kbrick @holzerisms @transjackfairy @moonlightredfern @squintclover (apparently Tumblr says no to tagging a 6th person?!?)

[lin-archive]

[postcard-from-the-past]

German dramatist Fritz von Unruh on a vintage postcard

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1932 – Death of Augusta Persse, better known as Lady Augusta Gregory, Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre director; also a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre.

Lady Gregory was an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre director; also a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. George Bernard Shaw once described Lady Augusta Gregory as “the greatest living Irishwoman”. Lady Gregory, also known as Isabella Augusta, was born on 15 March 1852, in Roxborough, Co Galway. She married Sir William Henry Gregory in 1880. Sir Gregory owned an estate at Coole Park near…

[reading-plays-is-a-thing-we-do]

American playwright Avery Hopwood with dancer Rosa Rolanda, 1924. This was part of an engagement announcement that was later revealed to be a publicity stunt.

Hopwood was a prominent Broadway playwright in the early 20th century. His claim to fame was having four plays running simultaneously in 1920. He was also an occasional collaborator with Mary Roberts Rinehart, known for being a writer of murder mysteries. Together, their most successful play was The Bat (1920).

[vieformidable]

"WHEN YOU ARE OLD" - by William Butler Yeats

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire,

take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,

Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled

And paced upon the mountains overhead

And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

(One of the last poems that W.B. Yeats wrote. Born 13 June 1865 – Died 28 January 1939)

Image of W.B. Yeats public domain by Charles George Beresford via Wikimedia Commons.

[mizukiko-kun]

the moving image i'm seeing in my head from these two lines is choking me to a pleasant death

[commiepinkofag]

Emlyn Williams, 1932

📷 Paul Tanqueray

[dramatistsguild]

Conversation with Tina Howe

It's been a difficult week losing our dear Tina Howe. She served on Council at the Dramatists Guild of America for over 30 years. Here is a piece created from an interview she gave to Ruth Goetz, originally published in the Winter 1988 edition of The Dramatists Guild Quarterly (the predecessor to #TheDramatist).

[d-criss-news]

dgfound: Thank you to @ blaemire (GLORY DAYS, SPACE DOGS) for a vibrant salon hosted by DGF Board Member C. Graham Berwind, III and @creativepartnersproductions!

Following a warm introduction by DGF President Andrew Lippa, Nick led us through the journey of his show A LITTLE MORE ALIVE from stage to screen before launching into an evening of music featuring performances by @ skylarastin, @ darrencriss, and @alexandrasocha.

Thank you to all involved for such a lively celebration of new works!

Photos by Rebecca J Michelson - @rebeccajmichelson

[poligraf]

Those who present directly and immediately the new forms and symbols are the artists — the dramatists, the musicians, the painters, the dancers, the poets, and those poets of the religious sphere we call saints. They portray the new symbols in the form of images — poetic, aural, plastic, or dramatic, as the case may be. They live out their imaginations.

— Rollo May

[fauvester]

julian's got to go through a whole song and dance to get garak to get his annual flu shot. blowdarts don't work his scales are too thick they just bounce off