Honor Roll! Playwrights
@honorrollwrites.bsky.social
Action advocacy group for women+ playwrights age 40 and above as well as our allies. [email protected] HonorRollPlaywrights.org
Thinking about spring hehe
Sunday Prompt:
Félix Vallotton - Undergrowth in Spring, 1923.
Sunday Prompt:
Félix Vallotton - Undergrowth in Spring, 1923.
January 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Thinking about spring hehe
Sunday Prompt:
Félix Vallotton - Undergrowth in Spring, 1923.
Sunday Prompt:
Félix Vallotton - Undergrowth in Spring, 1923.
“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
January 25, 2026 at 4:33 PM
“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver
January 25, 2026 at 4:33 PM
“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver
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Fair Play co-creative lead Caitriona Shoobridge on benefits system & the arts 'the choice is either to stay on the poverty line & do small amounts of work (harmful to career progression) or abandon benefits in the hope of success (harmful to survival).'
www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/thea...
www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/thea...
January 19, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Fair Play co-creative lead Caitriona Shoobridge on benefits system & the arts 'the choice is either to stay on the poverty line & do small amounts of work (harmful to career progression) or abandon benefits in the hope of success (harmful to survival).'
www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/thea...
www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/thea...
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Join Us! Online! Tues Jan 27, 7 pm ET, Oral History interview of Alexis Greene about women in theatre. Guests: Kathleen Chalfant, Lynnie Godfrey, Emily Mann, Yvette Heyliger, Kiana Lum, Gwynn MacDonald, w. Ludovica Villar-Hauser, Cynthia Cooper. Free. RSVP.
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January 21, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Join Us! Online! Tues Jan 27, 7 pm ET, Oral History interview of Alexis Greene about women in theatre. Guests: Kathleen Chalfant, Lynnie Godfrey, Emily Mann, Yvette Heyliger, Kiana Lum, Gwynn MacDonald, w. Ludovica Villar-Hauser, Cynthia Cooper. Free. RSVP.
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January 17, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Sunday Prompt:
January 18, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Sunday Prompt:
“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go—-love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.”
—L.R.Knost
AND WRITE
—L.R.Knost
AND WRITE
January 18, 2026 at 2:06 PM
“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go—-love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.”
—L.R.Knost
AND WRITE
—L.R.Knost
AND WRITE
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Haven't I said? So many times. This is pitched to visual artists but it applies to all of us.
I worked out a system, thanks to a patron, where I supplement these fees by writing a rejection post that my patrons then pay for me for. (The Pay per Creation model on Patreon made this possible.)
I worked out a system, thanks to a patron, where I supplement these fees by writing a rejection post that my patrons then pay for me for. (The Pay per Creation model on Patreon made this possible.)
Application fees are one of the least examined but most pervasive forms of class stratification in the arts.
Why Are We Paying for the Privilege of Rejection?
Application fees are one of the least examined but most pervasive forms of class stratification in the arts.
hyperallergic.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Haven't I said? So many times. This is pitched to visual artists but it applies to all of us.
I worked out a system, thanks to a patron, where I supplement these fees by writing a rejection post that my patrons then pay for me for. (The Pay per Creation model on Patreon made this possible.)
I worked out a system, thanks to a patron, where I supplement these fees by writing a rejection post that my patrons then pay for me for. (The Pay per Creation model on Patreon made this possible.)
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Giving myself permission to be has been instrumental in my healing journey. In these difficult times, offering yourself kindness and noticing your nervous state and what you need is an act of resistance. And a prompt for silence…
open.substack.com/pub/goldmans...
open.substack.com/pub/goldmans...
Permission to Be
With a Prompt on Silence
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Giving myself permission to be has been instrumental in my healing journey. In these difficult times, offering yourself kindness and noticing your nervous state and what you need is an act of resistance. And a prompt for silence…
open.substack.com/pub/goldmans...
open.substack.com/pub/goldmans...
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US Theatre Visa Issues: They believe it’s because two of the actors in the cast, who are British citizens, were born in Nigeria. The Olympics and World Cup are going to be great fun. 👇🏻
📣 Quarantine's 12 LAST SONGS performance is cancelled this weekend at @lamamaetc.bsky.social in NYC because several company members visas are still not approved. In case you are wondering how international theatre work is faring in the US' fash times
January 16, 2026 at 3:35 AM
US Theatre Visa Issues: They believe it’s because two of the actors in the cast, who are British citizens, were born in Nigeria. The Olympics and World Cup are going to be great fun. 👇🏻
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Nick Hern “cited the impact of…the compilers and editors of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays...
"Getting plays in print – that’s what we should do to ensure other generations understand our time,…I think they’re great time capsules."“
www.thestage.co.uk/news/publish...
"Getting plays in print – that’s what we should do to ensure other generations understand our time,…I think they’re great time capsules."“
www.thestage.co.uk/news/publish...
Publisher Nick Hern: New writing is in danger
Leading publisher Nick Hern has warned that new work is in jeopardy, and has called for the industry to provide active encouragement and training for early-career playwrights
www.thestage.co.uk
January 17, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Nick Hern “cited the impact of…the compilers and editors of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays...
"Getting plays in print – that’s what we should do to ensure other generations understand our time,…I think they’re great time capsules."“
www.thestage.co.uk/news/publish...
"Getting plays in print – that’s what we should do to ensure other generations understand our time,…I think they’re great time capsules."“
www.thestage.co.uk/news/publish...
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Guess who is going to buy more books today? (It’s me)
January 17, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Guess who is going to buy more books today? (It’s me)
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Join here to stop AI from stealing our work. www.humanartistrycampaign.com
Human Artistry Campaign
www.humanartistrycampaign.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Join here to stop AI from stealing our work. www.humanartistrycampaign.com
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dear theatre, walk away from the distraction machine
January 13, 2026 at 7:13 AM
dear theatre, walk away from the distraction machine
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January 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
January 11, 2026 at 3:38 PM
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
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January 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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maybe in 2026 my new plays will be read and seen
January 1, 2026 at 6:16 AM
maybe in 2026 my new plays will be read and seen
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art forms evolve. but somehow a lot of US theatre behaves as if Beckett, Shange and Wooster Group never happened.
January 1, 2026 at 9:02 AM
art forms evolve. but somehow a lot of US theatre behaves as if Beckett, Shange and Wooster Group never happened.