Recommended Reading

Places to find plays:

Expand the Canon: https://www.hedgepigensemble.org/expand-the-canon

New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/

The Kilroys: https://thekilroys.org/

Nothing for the Group on Substack

@shaunaturgy on Instagram 

Published Plays:

***Emilia Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm

Alabaster Audrey Cefaly

The Gulf Audrey Cefaly

Eurydice Sarah Ruhl

***An Octoroon Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

***The Wolves Sarah Delappe

Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch

***Athena by Gracie Gardner

Dance Nation by Claire Barron

The Laramie Project Moises Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre Project

Silent Sky, Lauren Gunderson

Lungs, Duncan Macmillan

Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Will Aubrey

Fairview, Jackie Sibblies Drury

Intimate Apparel, Lynn Nottage

Les Blancs, Lorraine Hansberry

***cullud wattah, erika dickerson desponza

Pass Over, Antoinette Nwandu

Paradise Blue, Dominique Morisseau

Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morisseau

White Noise, Suzan Lori-Parks

Maytag Virgin, Audrey Cefaly

Mum, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

When the Long Trick’s Over, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

The Wasp, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

Hot Wing King, Katori Hall

Kayak Jordan Hall

Horse Girls, Jenny Rachel Weiner

***John Proctor is the Villain, Kimberly Bellflower

Dry Land. Ruby Rae Spiegel

All the Natalie Portmans CA Johnson

How to Defend Yourself, Liliana Padilla

Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea, Nathan Allen Davis

What the Constitution Means to Me, Heidi Schreck

the ripple, or the wave that carried me home Christina Anderson

***Fat Ham James Ijames

New Play Exchange:

Peabrain Jacob Marx Rice

Monica: This Play is Not About Monica Lewinsky, Dianne Nora

***A Play About David Mamet Writing a Play About Harvey Weinstein, Mathilde Dratwa

***Funny, Like HAHA (Or A Play About a Rape Joke), Katherine Gwynn

***Washer/Dryer Nandita Shenoy

In Search of the Mothman AM Paulson

Our Dear Dead Drug Lord Alexis Scheer

Death of a Driver Will Snider

Books:

Directing New Plays: Tools for Art and Collaboration Evan Cabnet

The Director’s Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre by Katie Mitchell

Women of Will Tina Packer

Play Stuart Brown

100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl

Articles:

Towards a Process for Critical Response, Liz Lerman

Brecht, the “Fable”, and the Teaching of Directing Craig Kinzer

Visit to a Small Planet, Elinor Fuchs

Dominique Morisseau’s Rules of Engagement