Sep 25, 2017 – Lark News The Lark Announces 2017-18 Rita Goldberg Playwrights' Workshop FellowsThe Lark is thrilled to welcome Rae Binstock, Nick Gandiello, Lucas Hnath, C.A. Johnson, and Susan Soon He Stanton to the residency this season!
Sep 21, 2017 – Lark News Meet the Apprentices: 2017-18by Christopher ReyesIf you listen closely, you can hear the gentle fluttering of wings as five new Larkees join the nest, eager to be an active part of The Lark’s mission.
Sep 15, 2017 – Lark News Tim J. Lord Selected as First Ever Recipient of The Apothetae and Lark Playwriting FellowshipThis fellowship, for a Disabled writer, includes a two year residency with access to a variety of Apothetae and Lark resources, as well as a $40,000 prize.
Sep 13, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner Do You Still Miss New York?by Daria PolatinWhen I moved to Los Angeles for TV writing work a few years ago, I missed seeing my theater community on a daily basis. People always asked me if I miss...
Sep 12, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner The Fear of Owning My Joyby Donja R. LoveI’ve always been prone to think about the ‘what-ifs,’ but recently those thoughts have become overwhelming, debilitating even. What started out as sheer...
Aug 31, 2017 – Equity in the Arts Rethinking Theater Etiquetteby Olivia George"It wasn’t that my peers didn’t want to go to the theater. It was that they suspected the theater didn’t want them to go to it."
Aug 29, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner In Search of a Homeby Mariana Carreño King...like many teenagers all around at the time, I thought New York was the only place to do theater in the entire world.
Aug 28, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner The ChirpCheck out these playwriting submission opportunities with upcoming deadlines!
Aug 14, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner There is No Money in the American Theaterby Matthew Paul OlmosIt is inevitably told to us that making an actual living solely off our art is not going to happen. However, many of us simply shrug this off...
Aug 02, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner From New York to LA: A Cross Coastal Conversationby Carla Ching & Rehana Lew MirzaMy early TV writing was making my plays bad and my playwriting was making my TV writing bad. I’ve figured out a way to split my brain now a bit more, so...
Jul 28, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Riding Uphill on a Red Bikeby Caridad SvichIt is a baking summer day in London. “Unusually warm and humid for June,” a friend says. I am taking the tube down to Southwark for a staged reading on ...
Jul 27, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Six Stages of Staging "Resistance"by Olivia GeorgeWhen Caridad first pitched the idea for the salon to me, I thought we would get ten writers. Fifteen, maybe...In the end, there were 86 writers, and loo...
Jul 25, 2017 – Stages of Resistance {my lingerie play}: the videosI want to create art that makes the impossible feel possible in the room. We have to let the impossible feel possible for the artists involved and the ...
Jul 24, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner Drivetimeby Jennifer MaiselThe play really begins the moment I get into my car. Drive time as the pre-experience to curtain. A crawling ant darting into unprotected lefts in rush ...
Jul 18, 2017 – Stages of Resistance YES - AND: Asking ourselves (and each other) tough questions about creation, privilege, power & responsibilityby Leila BuckI’m always skeptical of any one version of a story. As the daughter of a Lebanese mother from a mixed Muslim and Christian family and an American diplom...
Jul 13, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Wrong kind of Asian, wrong kind of workby Tanuja AmarasuriyaWhen I was kid, I dreamed of being a film star (obviously). And in those fantasies, I pictured my adult film star self as having white skin...
Jul 12, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner The Merchant of Venice and Claringtonby Shishir Kurup & Liza Powel O'BrienCornerstone Theater put out an initiative with the Audrey Skirball Center saying, let’s get some playwrights to write about streets and corners of this ...
Jul 11, 2017 – Stages of Resistance When the Far Right Becomes the Status Quo: A Nightmare Turned Realby Charlotte MeehanLooking back, my initial decision to write this play stemmed from my anxiety about the frightening similarity between an increasingly widespread rhetori...
Jul 10, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Nothing of this is a dreamby Emily MendelsohnI am thinking of rivers or the sun fading gold against the wall. I am thinking of the lights of the city catching the underbelly of clouds or undismissa...
Jul 07, 2017 – Stages of Resistance American Privilege in Trump's Americaby Saleena NivalOn the night of Tuesday, November 8, I sat in my dorm room crying on Facetime with my Colombian best friend, Gaby. We sat in silence as our hopes for th...
Jul 06, 2017 – Stages of Resistance TRUTH, RECONCILIATION & RESISTANCE: Ceremonial Performativity and Native Aesthetics in Native Theaterby Carolyn Dunn
Jul 05, 2017 – Stages of Resistance A Political Animalby Liza Ann AcostaThe black and white image of Sophie Scholl, one of the core members of the White Rose resistance movement against Nazi Germany, was running through my F...
Jun 29, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Playing for Time in Beirutby Milia AyacheThe first time I lost faith in theater was hours before our last performance. It was my tenth show in six days, the culmination of a year’s work on Fami...
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