Collaborating with Your Characters, Resting Your Cards, and the Structure of Bernard Gerbanier - Playwright's Spotlight with Carolyn Gage

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Before the World Premiere of her play, Georgia and the Butch, playwright Carolyn Gage streamed into the Playwright's Spotlight. As happens with most episodes lately we explore something new about the craft and delve into the documentary play, in this case the relationship between Georgia O'Keefe and Maria Chabot. We discuss framing and censorship, theatre critics, creative license. We also chat about her experience approaching musicals and adaptations, the purpose and rules of a song, her journey into playwriting, the lessons of structure from Bernard Gerbanier, satisfying your audience, the benefits of complex dialogue and resting your cards, and collaborating with your audience. Carolyn was also generous enough to offer anyone a free pdf of any work in her catalog if you mention this episode of Playwright's Spotlight. I hope you'll take her up on the opportunity. Enjoy!

Georgia and the Butch opens at The Tank in New York City on February 25th through March 12th. Tickets are available at https://thetanknyc.org/calendar-1/2025/2/25/georgia-and-the-butch.

Carolyn Gage is a playwright, performer, and director. She has written over eighty plays from full length to one-acts, musicals, adaptations and one-woman shows while specializing in non-traditional roles for women. In 2022, her play In McClintock’s Corn was National Runner-up for the Jane Chambers Award for Excellence in Feminist Playwriting, sponsored by the Women and Theatre Program of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. 

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