John Kander, the award-winning composer behind Cabaret, Chicago, and The Scottsboro Boys, talks about his collaborations with Fred Ebb in a conversation with DG Council member Stephen Flaherty.

Originally Recorded in 2007

Award-winning playwright and director Emily Mann joins her fellow Council member, Edward Albee, to discuss directing for the theatre from a playwright’s perspective. 

Originally Recorded in 2007

http://www.dramatistsguild.com/eventseducation/itrmannalbee.aspx#.UXqUSrWkrw4

One of America’s most popular and prolific playwrights, Neil Simon, joins Council member Terrence McNally for a conversation about comedy writing. Simon, the award-winning playwright of works such as The Odd Couple,Brighton Beach Memoirs and Lost in Yonkers, discusses the difference between writing characters and writing jokes.

Originally recorded 1984

http://www.dramatistsguild.com/eventseducation/itrsimonmcnally.aspx#.UVxcdJOkrw6 

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies reads from his early work and discusses developing his writing style for stage and screen with fellow Council Member Jeffrey Sweet.

Originally Recorded 1992

http://www.dramatistsguild.com/eventseducation/itrmargulies.aspx#.UUx-ERykrw4

Alan Menken, award-winning composer and Council member, discusses writing for stage and screen with fellow DG members while also playing songs from his body of work, including Little Shop of Horrors and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.

Originally recorded in 2012

http://www.dramatistsguild.com/eventseducation/itralanmenken.aspx#.UTpYZhykrw6

"If a puppet tells you not to steal sheet music, we think you should listen. Especially if those puppets are voiced by Benj Pasek, Nick Blaemire, Kait Kerrigan and the inimitable Stephen Schwartz." - Kait Kerrigan & Brian Lowdermilk (https://www.facebook.com/KerriganLowdermilk)

As destructive and unfair to composers, lyricists and publishers as the illegal photocopying of sheet music has been over the years, the spread of free sheet music sites on the internet is threatening the very existence of professional publishing.  In response to this threat, the Dramatists Guild formed the Anti-Piracy committee to combat the piracy of sheet music on the internet. The committee consists of Craig Carnelia, Andrew Lippa, Georgia Stitt, Stephen Flaherty, Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk.

Directed and Edited by Jeremy Levine, Transient Pictures

Produced by Craig Carnelia, Jeremy Levine and Stephen Schwartz

"Someone Wrote That Song" 

Music: Alan Menken

Lyric: Craig Carnelia

Music Produced, Arranged, and Recorded by: Curtis Moore 

Vocals: Nick Blaemire, Kait Kerrigan, Benj Pasek and Stephen Schwartz

Backup Vocals: Curtis Moore

Director of Photography: Eric Phillips-Horst

Field Producer & Creative Consultant: Marina Fernandez Ferri

Puppet Design & Construction: The Puppet Kitchen

Set Design & Construction: The Puppet Kitchen

Puppeteers:

Heather Asch

Jake Basel

Ryan Dillon

Michael Schupbach

James Wojtal

Eric Wright

Puppet Kitchen Staff: Kevin Abrams, Jake Basel, Emily DeCola, Aston Hollins McClanahan, Chloe Moser, Michael Schupbach, Eric Wright 

Consulting Producer: Landon Van Soest

Production Assistant: JP Keenan

Compositing & Color Grading: Begonia Colomar

Additional footage from "The Legacy Project"

Courtesy of the Dramatists Guild Fund

Thanks: 

The Cornelia Connelly Center

David Faux 

Amy Von Vett

Special thanks to the many Dramatists Guild composers and lyricists who lent their time and support to this project.

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John Weidman, award-winning librettist and DG Council member, discusses his experience working in the musical theatre and collaborating on shows such asPacific Overtures and Assassins with Stephen Sondheim.

Originally recorded 2007

http://www.dramatistsguild.com/eventseducation/itrweidman.aspx#.USed0KWkpav 

The Dramatists Guild in association with The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival presents a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and DG Council member Marsha Norman.

Marsha Norman who has received multiple awards for her body of work including the Pulitzer Prize for 'night, Mother, discusses her start in the theatre and shares her experience with Gary Garrison, the Executive Director of Creative Affairs.

Originally recorded in 2008

http://www.dramatistsguild.com/eventseducation/itrnorman.aspx#.URaMRqXoRav

Award-winning playwright and actor Dael Orlandersmith discusses her process and the various influences behind her work with DG Executive Director of Creative Affairs Gary Garrison.

Originally recorded in 2008

http://www.dramatistsguild.com/eventseducation/intheroomorlandersmith.aspx#.UQLOTCfoRau