STAGE TUBE: Andrew Lippa Inspires Students in Michigan for DGF's Traveling Masters

As a part of Dramatists Guild Fund's Traveling Masters Program, Andrew Lippa recently visited Saginaw, Michigan, to talk to students and early-career writers about the craft and business of being a dramatist. Click below to watch highlights from and interviews about his experience!

The Traveling Masters program is a national outreach program of the Dramatists Guild Fund that brings prominent dramatists into communities across the country to lead master classes, workshops, talkbacks and other public events.

Traveling Masters have included Jason Robert Brown, Annie Baker, Pearl Cleage, Anne Washburn, Daniel Beaty, Lisa Kron, Andrew Lippa, among others. Other Traveling Masters events this spring feature playwrights Amy Herzog (4000 Miles, After the Revolution) and Cusi Cram (Dusty and the Big Bad World, All the Bad Things).

For more about the program, go to dgfund.org/programs.html#traveling_masters.

The Dramatists Guild Fund is the public charity arm of the Dramatists Guild of America. Its mission is to aid and nurture writers for the theater; to fund non-profit theaters producing contemporary American works; and to heighten awareness, appreciation, and support of theater across the country. Each year, DGF awards grants to non-profit theatrical organizations across the country that produce works by American writers, provides emergency aid to writers facing illness or other unforeseen circumstances, and supports numerous educational programs and writing development opportunities for dramatists. More information at www.dgfund.org.