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Interview with Lydia Oxenham, playwright of "Thump In The Night"
Q: Many people don't really know their neighbors, even with just a thin wall separating them from the people next door. Do you think...
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Interview with Joni Ravenna, playwright of "Beethoven and Misfortune Cookies"
Q: We don't normally ask playwrights about the origins of their scripts, but this one has an unusual genesis. It sprang from a kind of...
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Interview with Cambria Denim, playwright of "A Girl Smiles In The Arctic"
Q: A Girl Smiles in the Arctic is getting its second production here at OC-Centric, having won Best Play at the Secret Theatre's Act One:...
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Interview with Buddy Farmer, playwright of "Joey & Mare"
Q: As your bio mentions, you played football for Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama. Very few playwrights seem to come out of...
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Interview with Darren Andrew Nash, playwright of "Allegory of the Cave"
Q: The title of Allegory of the Cave, of course, refers to Plato's famed allegory explaining that the reality of our existence may be...
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Interview with James Colgan, playwright of "The Mulberry Bush"
Q: Your bio says that you entered theatre as an actor, and I understand that you have also been a lawyer. How have those two experiences...
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Interview with Karen Fix Curry, playwright of "Celtic Knot"
Q: Theatrically speaking, you are a "triple threat" of a particularly intriguing kind: in addition to being a playwright, you are also a...