Press

A collection of recent and notable press:

• Beckett’s Babies (10/21/19)
• Most Plays Performed in DC Are Written by White Men (WAMU, 7/9/19)
• PEN/Faulkner Foundation Names Gwydion Suilebhan Executive Director (American Theatre, 1/10/19)
• Market to New Audiences (American Theatre, 10/23/18)
• Removing Box Office Barriers (American Theatre, 10/23/18)
• How Are Washington Theaters Doing When It Comes to Producing Plays by Women? (Washington Post, 9/29/18)
• Up Close and Personal (Capitol Communicator, 4/23/18)
• Woolly Mammoth’s New App Entices Audiences in the Age of Technology (DC Theatre Scene, 9/22/17)
• Onstage/Offstage: Gwydion Suilebhan (Onstage/Offstage podcast, 9/1/17)
• Tears or Laughter? For This Play’s Poster, It’s Your Call (New York Times, 2/14/17)
• The Staying Power of The Welders (American Theatre, 9/22/16)
• Welder Wisdom (DC Theatre Scene, 8/4/16)
• The Welders Pass the Torch to the Next Generation of DC Playwrights (DCist, 8/3/16)
• Offscript Live in DC (American Theatre, 6/29/16)
• Gwydion Suilebhan’s Meme “Transmission” and the Evolution of Theater (The Civilians, 5/12/16)
• A provocative monologue needles its audience (Washington City Paper, 5/6/16)
• Transmission from The Welders (DC Theatre Scene, 5/6/16)
• The Revolution Will Definitely Be Dramatized (Washington Post, 5/4/16)
• Review: Transmission at The Welders (DC Metro Theater Arts, 5/2/16)
• Take Ten: Gwydion Suilebhan (theatreWashington.org, 4/26/16)
• Inching Closer to Gender Parity in Washington (Washington Post, 10/1/15)
• The Welders Get Ready to Pass the Torch to a New Crew of Theatremakers (American Theatre, 6/24/15)
• Theater’s Year-Long Renovation Faces Dramatic Finish (Washington Post, 6/24/15)
• Who Are the New Welders? (Washington Post, 6/23/15)
• Introducing the New Play Exchange, Where Playwriting Meets 21st Century Technology (Inside Philanthropy, 6/23/15)
• The Future of Playwriting Has (Finally) Arrived (Backstage, 6/2/15)
• Q&A with Writers About Things Other Than Writing (Kara Lee Corthran, 3/30/15)
• ‘The Butcher’ an Important New Play Produced Well (Naples Daily News, 3/12/15)
• “The Butcher” Explores Faith and Extremism (Fort Myers News-Press, 3/5/15)
• Gulfshore Playhouse Presents a World Premiere (Florida Weekly, 2/26/15)
• New Play Exchange Debuts (Washington Post, 1/21/15)
• Gwydion Suilebhan! (Exit the Stage Door, 10/29/14)
• A Big Debut Online with My America (Washington Post, 7/2/14)
• Harnessing Data to Combat Gender and Racial Inequality in the American Theatre (Big Think, 6/16/14)
• Gwydion Suilebhan: the “Everyman” of Playwriting (City Theatre, 6/9/14)
• Collected Possibilities (Jason Heat Schlafstein, 3/20/14)
• Washington, D.C. Theater Initiative to Showcase Female Playwrights in 2015 (Variety, 2/20/14)
• This Play from Iran Is an Actor’s Nightmare (Studio 360, 2/7/14)
• Hope and Exchange (American Theatre, November 2013)
• Gulfshore Playhouse Kicks Off Inaugural New Works Festival (GoNaples, 8/15/13)
• NNPN Hires Gwydion Suilebhan as Project Director of the New Play Exchange (NNPN, 7/29/13)
• New D.C. Playwrights Collective to Produce 5 Plays Over 3 Years (Washington Post, 7/9/13)
• New Playwrights Collective The Welders Set to Produce 5 New Plays in 3 Years (Broadwayworld.com, 6/24/13)
• WiredArtsFest: Theater Gets a Tech Twist (ABC News, 2/22/13)
• Broadway, Coming Soon to a Theater Near You (Washington Post, 2/1/13)
• The Twitter Spat Mamet Wrought (Washington City Paper, 2/1/13)
• Locally Grown Gains a DC Advocate (Just Wrought, 1/24/13)
• Is Poetry Dead? (Washington Post, 1/22/13)
• It’s Kind of a Whole Process (Washington City Paper, 11/20/12)
• Dog & Pony DC’s Very Different Approach to Playmaking (Hill Rag, 11/2/2012)
• Real Life Superheroes Pursue a Better World (Metro Connection, WAMU 88.5 FM, 9/7/12)
• Reals (DC Theatre Scene, 9/4/2012)
• Faux Reals: On the Deconstruction, Mainstreaming, and Redeconstruction of Superheroes (Washington City Paper, 8/29/12)
• Backstage: ‘Reals’ and ‘Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo’ (Washington Post, 8/29/12)
• Reals at H Street Playhouse (Washington City Paper, 8/27/12)
• It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane… It’s a Play About Real Life Superheroes (Scoutmob, 8/27/12)
• Anything but Spectacle (theatreWashington, 8/10/12)
• Theatre-Parent Interview (MamaTurg, 8/2/12)
• Fringe Benefits (theatreWashington, 6/27/12)
• Theatre that makes us see differently (The Guardian, Noises Off, 5/25/12)
• Backstage: Dramatists Guild of America appoints D.C. area representative (Washington Post, 4/10/12)
• On politics and politeness (The Guardian, Noises Off, 2/3/12)
• What’s the State of the D.C. Playwright? (Washington City Paper, 2/1/12)
• What are stories for? And what’s producing all about? (The Guardian, Noises Off, 1/19/12)
• The Omnivore’s Buffet (Washington City Paper, 1/17/12)
• Washington playwrights struggle to be heard (Washington Post, 1/6/12)
• Small theaters’ audiences are growing, but where will they sit? (Washington Post, 1/6/12)
• Theatre bloggers bite back (The Guardian, Noises Off, 11/22/11)
• Forming an Artistic Love Connection (Metro Connection, 11/4/1011
• Heroes, Hold the Super (Washington City Paper, 1/18/11)
• High ticket prices raise questions about theatre’s values (The Guardian, Noises Off, 10/19/10)
• In “Constellation,” historic preservation meets homelessness in a feel-good way (Washington Post, 2/5/10)
• A Boffo Buffet With a Little Bit of Everything for Someone (Washington Post, 8/1/06)
• ‘Let X’: Integral Inventiveness (Washington Post, 5/1/06)