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Confessions of a Playwright Cast as a Dramaturg

Award-winning playwright Kyle Bass on the importance of being a dramaturg-- at least for awhile

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Writer In The World
Nov 19, 2025
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Getting under the hood, if you will, of a theater can teach a young-in-the-craft playwright more than a valuable thing or two: how scripts actually come to life in that lit end of the room; what the empty space dares and demands of those who dare write to fill it; that bicycles and open umbrellas have simple majesty upon…

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