A discussion with the 1st Stage playwrights, moderated by Todd London, author of Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of The New American Play.

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About the Moderator...

This summer Todd London became the first recipient of Theatre Communications Group’s (TCG) Visionary Leadership Award, for “an individual who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to advance the theatre field as a whole, nationally and/or internationally.” He is in his fourteenth season as artistic director of New Dramatists, the nation’s oldest center for the support and development of playwrights, where he has worked closely with more than a hundred of America’s finest playwrights and advocated nationally and internationally for hundreds more. A former Managing Editor of American Theatre magazine and the author of The Artistic Home, published by the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), he has written, edited, and/or contributed to a dozen books. December, 2009 saw the publication of Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of The New American Play, the culmination of Theatre Development Fund’s four-year study of new play production in America, for which Todd served as project director and senior writer.  Todd won the prestigious George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for his essays in American Theatre and a Milestone Award for his first novel, The World’s Room, published by Steerforth Press.  Under his leadership, New Dramatists received both a special Tony® Honor and the Ross Wetzsteon Award from the Village Voice Obies. Todd has taught at Harvard and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and currently serves on the faculty of Yale School of Drama.

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