The Legacy Project
The Legacy Project documents and preserves the creative process of America's most esteemed dramatists in a series of filmed conversations, each featuring an established stage author (or team of collaborators) and an emerging one. These videos serve to heighten the awareness of writing and composing for the stage and provide a unique window into the thinking of America's most prominent and promising playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists.
Archives
An ongoing project of DGF is to document, organize, and to eventually secure a permanent home for archival materials belonging to the Dramatists Guild. The archives include documents dating back to the 1920's including correspondence from luminaries such as Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, Irving Berlin and many others.
Awards
The Dramatists Guild Fund recognizes achievement in the theater by administering and/or presenting awards in several categories:
- The Flora Roberts Award, named in honor of the famed theatrical agent, is presented to a theater professional in recognition of distinguished work in the theater and to encourage the continuation of that work.
- The Kitty Carlisle Hart Award was established in 2008 in honor of Kitty Carlisle Hart to recognize outstanding philanthropy in the education and support of writers for the theater.
- The Kirkwood Award is given in honor of the author and playwright James Kirkwood to a theater whose mission includes the encouragement, nurturing, and mentoring of emerging playwrights.
- The Madge Evans & Sidney Kingsley Awards for Excellence in Theater are given respectively to a worthy stage actress and to a playwright who are in mid-career.
Traveling Masters
Currently in development, the Traveling Masters is a national outreach program in which the Fund will partner with regional theaters to bring prominent members of the Dramatists Guild into communities across the country to conduct writing workshops, master classes, and pubic symposia, sharing their knowledge, wisdom and experience in the craft of writing for the theater.
A partial list of writers participating in the Traveling Masters program includes:
- Kathleen Cahill — (Fatal Song, Women Who Love Science Too Much)
- Kirsten Childs — (The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Miracle Brothers)
- Gretchen Cryer — (I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking on the Road, The Last Sweet Days of Isaac)
- Charles Fuller — (A Soldier's Play, Brownsville Affair)
- Mark Hollmann — (Urinetown, The Girl, the Grouch and the Goat)
- Arthur Kopit — (Indians, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad)
- Lisa Kron — (Well, 2.5 Minute Ride)
- Shirley Lauro — (A Piece of My Heart, Clarence Darrow's Last Trial)
- Craig Lucas — (Prelude to a Kiss, Marry Me A Little)
- Polly Pen — (Goblin Market, Bed and Sofa)
- Theresa Rebeck — (The Scene, Bad Dates, Omnium Gatherum)
- Doug Wright — (I Am My Own Wife, Grey Gardens)