Posts by: jeffhowe

Dead Authors …

Back from a few days in Berlin. Unavoidable, yet incredibly energizing intellectually. I did not have a chance to visit the theater (I basically flew in, gave my talk, and flew out), but I was able to have some amazing conversations, some of them focused on what is increasingly being called social media theater. At […]

The Art of Immersion

As I mentioned in my last post, much of my interest in playwriting lies in the emergence of new forms of storytelling that are emerging on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Now, there aren’t exactly a lot of books on this subject, and it’s probably no accident that one of the few that […]

1Book140, And What It Has To Do With Drama

A few days before our first class I started a Twitter-based book club called 1book140. The name is a play off the popular city-wide reading programs like One Book, One Cambridge; One Book, One Chicago, etc. I’ve partnered with The Atlantic as host, and as of this moment the 1book140 Twitter feed has 5,439 followers […]