This collection of the playwrights working in the DC metropolitan area was my first foray into list-making for social change… and it’s led to some rather large-scale changes for a lot of people. It started with a simple request on my blog: Send me, I asked, the names of any playwrights you know in DC. I seeded the list with the 40 or so people I already knew of myself, then sat back and added every name people sent me. Within days we were up to 100, and before long we were approaching 250: way more than I would have suspected were out there. It was empowering to know how many of us were working in the area… too many of us, I fear, believing we were alone.
Originally, this was intended to be a living list. I asked readers to help me keep it up to date, because I wanted to preserve a symbol of our strength in numbers. May we all have solidarity with one another, I shouted, and may we all be counted. For now, though, given the fact that the DC playwriting communist has become substantially more robust and visible during the last decade, I retain the list only as a symbol of what collective organizing can do for dramatists.
- Psalmayene 24
- Brett Abelman
- Kathleen Akerley
- Karen Alenier
- Norman Allen
- Ben Allen-Kingsland
- Rich Amada
- Chinita L. Anderson
- Caroline Angell
- Juliana Avery
- Harry Bagdasian
- Randy Baker
- Mario Baldessari
- Alan Balkema
- Rachel Barclay
- Bob Bartlett
- Daniel Basila
- Matt Bassett
- Tia Shearer Bassett
- Andrew Baughman
- Mary Beane
- John Becker
- LouAnn K. Behan
- Christina Bejan
- James Beller
- Barbara Bellman
- Joan Bellsey
- Mark Berman
- Mona Berman
- Bari Biern
- Melissa Blackall
- Nick Blaemire
- Martin Blank
- Michael Bobbitt
- Michael Bohane
- Rebecca Bossen
- Joe Brack
- Keith Bridges
- Elizabeth Bruce
- Carol Burbank
- Kathleen Cole Burke
- Nicole Burton
- Brett Busang
- Patrick Bussink
- Jessica Bylander
- Richard Byrne
- Renee Calarco
- Jiiko Caldwell
- Jay Hall Carpenter
- Keegan Cassady
- DC Cathro
- Audrey Cefaly
- Tearrance A. Chisholm
- Cary Cohen
- Patricia Connelly
- Don Connolly
- Marni Penning Coleman
- Alyssa Biber Colman
- Elizabeth Couchman
- Kathryn Coughlin
- Peter Coy
- Kim Crago
- Evan Crump
- Nicole Cunningham
- Allyson Currin
- Joan Cushing
- Patricia Davis
- Jenet Dechary
- Jim DeLeo
- Martha King De Silva
- Annalisa Dias
- Frank DiSalvo
- Brian Doyle
- Thembi Duncan
- Maboud Ebrahimzadeh
- Jennie Berman Eng
- Margaret Engel
- Otho Eskin
- Christine Evans
- Karen Evans
- D.L. Faulkner
- John Feffer
- Kitty Felde
- Zachary Fernebok
- Daniel Flint
- Jason Ford
- Joshua Ford
- Ann Fraistat
- Shawn Fraistat
- Tony Gallo
- Jon Gann
- Mary Gannon
- James Gardiner
- Ted Gettinger
- Teri Gillmor
- Shelley Herman Gillon
- Derek Goldman
- Miriam Gonzales
- Chris Graybill
- D.W. Gregory
- Ken Greller
- Matthew Greene
- Tim Guillot
- Paul Handy
- Mary Stone Hanley
- Patty Hardee
- Denise Hart
- Jennifer Book Haselswerdt
- John Hendel
- Tyler Herman
- Paige Hernandez
- James Hesla
- Christine Hirrel
- Jeffrey Holliday
- Murray Horwitz
- Brett Hursey
- Emilio Iasiello
- Pamela Jafari
- Sara Ilyse Jacobson
- Mark Jaster
- Christoph Jenkins
- Caleen Sinnette Jennings
- Jon Jon Johnson
- Shannon Johnson
- Joy Jones
- Steve Jones
- Elizabeth Jordan
- Ernie Joselovitz
- Nicole Jost
- Gerald Kamens
- Terry Kenney
- David Kilpatrick
- Christopher Kinslow
- Jon Klein
- Jennifer Knight
- Leslie Kobylinski
- Maeve Koch
- Vicki Riba Koestler
- Jean Kalata Koppen
- Marcus Kyd
- Charlotte Lang-Bush
- Stephen LaRocque
- Paulette Laufer
- Harriet Lawrence
- Karen Lawrence
- Pamela Leahigh
- Sara Joy Lebowitz
- Allan Lefcowitz
- Kristin LePine
- Cassandra Lewis
- Steve Lewis
- Jason Loewith
- Carl Brandt Long
- Ken Ludwig
- Kimberly Lynne
- Paco Madden
- Liz Maestri
- Will Mallon
- Frank Mancino
- Sabrina Mandell
- Joe Martin
- Maurice Martin
- Rick Massimo
- Anne McCaw
- Teddy McCormick
- Heather McDonald
- Michael Merino
- Adam Meyer
- Marilyn Millstone
- Lauren Mitchell
- Danielle Mohlman
- Robert Montenegro
- John Morogiello
- Jennifer Nelson
- Shawn Northrip
- Amanda Andrei O’Connor
- Catherine O’Connor
- Stephanie Offutt
- Nick Olcott
- Sean O’Leary
- Michael Oliver
- Ali Oliver-Krueger
- JR O’Sullivan
- Kathryn O’Sullivan
- Helen Pafumi
- Malcolm Pelles
- Eric Peterson
- Alexandra Petri
- Lola Pierson
- Margaret Poethig
- Aaron Posner
- Jack Powers
- Joseph Price
- Charles Primerano
- Kathleen Wise Pugh
- Deborah Randall
- Egan Reich
- Mary Resing
- Matt Ripa
- Arthur Roach
- Sybil Roberts
- David Mitchell Robinson
- Blake Robison
- Mark Rosman
- Ari Roth
- Susan Austin Roth
- Duke Ryan
- Joel Santner
- Lee Sapperstein
- Mark Scharf
- Jason Heat Schlafstein
- Steve Schulze
- Donna Sellinger
- Lucia Seyranyan
- Tom Shade
- Laura Shamas
- Alan Sharpe
- Alice Shen
- Christin Siems
- Kristy Simmons
- Devon Smith
- Erica Smith
- Matthew Smith
- E.B. Solomon
- Foster Solomon
- John Sowalsky
- Jenny Splitter
- Stephen Spotswood
- Michael Stang
- Tom Stephens
- Michael Stepowany
- Michael C. Stettes
- Chris Stezin
- Alicia Stone
- Paula Stone
- John Strand
- Manny Strauss
- Dane Styler
- Scott Suchman
- Gwydion Suilebhan
- Seamus Sullivan
- Mary Hall Surface
- Clay Teunis
- John Thompson
- George Tilson
- David Toney
- Rosemary Frisino Toohey
- Jonathan Tycko
- Noelle Viñas
- Shelley Walden
- Scot Walker
- Richard Washer
- Mary Watters
- L. Wehrmeyer
- John Whalen
- Daphne White
- David White
- Kat White
- Emmett Williams
- Bo Wilson
- Ron Wood
- Michael Wright
- Irene Rosenberg Wurtzel
- Anu Yadav
- Clark Young
- Karen Zacarias
- Laura Zam
- Amanda Zeitler
