Again, I don’t mean to sound negative or disparage all the good work being done in the field of development and production. I’d just like to raise awareness about what so many of my playwright friends complain about. The machinery that came into being after the new play gold rush of the ’80s needs to be examined. Funders and boards need to ask their artistic directors: How many new plays are in our season? How many by women? How many by writers of color? Where is that money for new work actually going? If we don’t examine the machine, and the big funders don’t investigate the authenticity of the institutions they fund, development hell could erode the divide between commercial and nonprofit and in 20 years we might be able to examine them under the same microscope.
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