by Cate Cammarata | Mar 28, 2022 | Writing Tips
I know it’s not for the money. So… what’s your why? Part of the privilege of teaching theater on a college level is the constant re-evaluation of the art form as it shape-shifts through human history. For the Greeks it was an integral part of the social experiment...
by Cate Cammarata | Jan 10, 2022 | Inspiration, NPD
What’s the Story Only You Can Write? “But what matters to us, what wounds us, what makes us feel we are the characters of an immense adventure, is what happens behind the curtain. And behind the curtain there is the naked stage.” (Helene Cixous, 1986) We...
by Cate Cammarata | Jan 4, 2022 | Dramaturgy
When is a Script “Ready?” Every playwright is familiar with the dreaded “developmental hell” cycle of reading after reading after reading, but then never getting a production. Each time you work hard, diligently addressing each note given,...