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      • THE IMPRACTICALITY OF MODERN-DAY MASTODONS
      • A DOLL’S HOUSE
      • 16 WINTERS, Or The Bear’s Tale
      • NewFest Short Works 2024
      • SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT
      • NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
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      • THE WOLVES
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      • OLD JAKE’S SKIRTS
      • ARE YOU SOMEONE TO SOMEBODY?
      • PARIS
      • THE SECRET IN THE WINGS
      • MARY, SWEET MARY Or The Final Tragedy of Christopher Marlowe
      • NewFest Short Works 2023
      • THE LOYALS
      • CABARET
    • 2021-2022 SeasonExpand
      • THE LATE WEDDING
      • THIS GIRL LAUGHS, THIS GIRL CRIES, THIS GIRL DOES NOTHING
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      • MARIE ANTIONETTE
      • NEXT TO NORMAL
      • AS YOU LIKE IT
      • RAGE
      • THREE ROMANCES FOR THE UNWELL AND OTHERWISE
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      • INTO THE WOODS
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Dramaturg’s Note for “Amanuensis, or The Miltons” by L M Feldman
Behind the Scenes | Playwriting | Uncategorized

Dramaturg’s Note for “Amanuensis, or The Miltons” by L M Feldman

March 23, 2020June 1, 2022

By Henry Aceves, Production Dramaturg (NewFest New Play Workshop: Amanuensis, or The Miltons) Our playwright, L, describes Amanuensis, or The Miltons as “a tale, a grapple, a loosely-historically-based feminist fantasia.”…

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How To Diversify the Canon
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How To Diversify the Canon

March 23, 2020June 1, 2022

by Henry Aceves, Production Dramaturg (NewFest New Play Workshop: Amanuensis, or The Miltons)   Paradise Lost has been considered an essential work in the English literary canon since the first…

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The Unsung Assassin
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The Unsung Assassin

March 9, 2020June 1, 2022

By Jake Mouchawar, Production Dramaturg for Squeaky Fromme Love Song Before James La Bella’s new play Squeaky Fromme Love Song, the 1990 cult musical Assassins was the first (and only) fictional…

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Emerson Stage’s 2020–2021 Season
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Emerson Stage’s 2020–2021 Season

March 6, 2020June 1, 2022

Our 2020–2021 season explores the question “What are you working to build?” We will feature stories of working to build new societies, both through kindness (Godspell) and force (The Resistible…

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The Oresteia to Good Breeding: How Justice Evolves
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The Oresteia to Good Breeding: How Justice Evolves

February 13, 2020June 1, 2022

By Olivia Ek, Production Dramaturg (Good Breeding) Robert O’Hara’s Good Breeding, as a contemporary adaptation of a Greek classic, is concerned less with keeping the Oresteia’s plot completely intact and…

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A Reflection by Brenna Epstein
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A Reflection by Brenna Epstein

January 28, 2020June 1, 2022

By Brenna Epstein (Cunningham in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot) What makes this rehearsal process so special for me is that this role is, by far, the most challenging…

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A Blog Post from the Dramaturg | The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
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A Blog Post from the Dramaturg | The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

January 27, 2020June 1, 2022

By Sivan Amir, Production Dramaturg Stephen Adley Guirgis, the playwright of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, puts a spin on the traditional Biblical tale placing Judas in a courtroom…

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When an Actor Becomes a Designer by Brenna Epstein
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When an Actor Becomes a Designer by Brenna Epstein

November 22, 2019

By Brenna Epstein (Assistant Costume Designer, 10 Out of 12) Can you imagine a world where every day feels like a tech rehearsal? I can. I’ve been living in it…

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Downtown Theater in New York by Alison Qu
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Downtown Theater in New York by Alison Qu

November 13, 2019June 1, 2022

by Alison Qu, 10 Out of 12 Production Dramaturg 10 Out of 12 was born in 2015 at Soho Repertory Theater, a small theater located in the middle of what…

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  • About
  • Blog
  • Upcoming Season
    • 2025-2026 Season
  • Past Seasons
    • 2024-2025 Season
      • POTUS, Or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
      • IMOGEN SAYS NOTHING
      • THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE
      • AMOUR
      • I LOVE XXX
      • LIMBER, A LOVE STORY
      • NewFest Short Works 2025
      • RED WOLF
      • HEAD OVER HEELS
    • 2023-2024 Season
      • LITTLE WOMEN
      • HOW WE GOT ON
      • BONNETS: How Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder
      • BAT BOY: The Musical
      • THE IMPRACTICALITY OF MODERN-DAY MASTODONS
      • A DOLL’S HOUSE
      • 16 WINTERS, Or The Bear’s Tale
      • NewFest Short Works 2024
      • SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT
      • NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
    • 2022-2023 Season
      • THE WOLVES
      • THE SPITFIRE GRILL
      • OLD JAKE’S SKIRTS
      • ARE YOU SOMEONE TO SOMEBODY?
      • PARIS
      • THE SECRET IN THE WINGS
      • MARY, SWEET MARY Or The Final Tragedy of Christopher Marlowe
      • NewFest Short Works 2023
      • THE LOYALS
      • CABARET
    • 2021-2022 Season
      • THE LATE WEDDING
      • THIS GIRL LAUGHS, THIS GIRL CRIES, THIS GIRL DOES NOTHING
      • BALTIMORE
      • MARIE ANTIONETTE
      • NEXT TO NORMAL
      • AS YOU LIKE IT
      • RAGE
      • THREE ROMANCES FOR THE UNWELL AND OTHERWISE
      • NewFest Short Works 2022
      • INTO THE WOODS
    • 2020-2021 Season
    • 2019-2020 Season
    • 2018-2019 Season
    • 2017-2018 Season
    • 2016-2017 Season
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