tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post116023415227924552..comments2024-02-27T07:05:04.014-05:00Comments on Adam Szymkowicz: an Email I receivedAdam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-1160417699169574102006-10-09T14:14:00.000-04:002006-10-09T14:14:00.000-04:00Jaime brings up an important point. are freelance...Jaime brings up an important point. are freelance dramaturgs expected to work for free? Or would they get sub rights from the playwright. I think if the playwright brings in this person to help, the playwright has some obligation. If they belong to a theatre, then they are perhaps salaried. It's hard to say. I know there are director and companies that want sub rights. If there was only more money for everyone perhaps this would be less of a concern.Adam Szymkowiczhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-1160326758134781922006-10-08T12:59:00.000-04:002006-10-08T12:59:00.000-04:00I've been told by Wendy Goldberg that this is not ...I've been told by Wendy Goldberg that this is not true - that this was briefly on the table in May 2006 but then quickly pulled. Whether one believes that version of events - or that it was pulled in response to this outcry - it's no long the policy at the O'Neill.<BR/><BR/>The person in charge of fundraising at the O'Neill is incompetent and should be fired. While the larger probelm is a dearth of arts funding, she is not up to the task, and I think that the blame for these perennial large-scale embarrassments to the OPC can be largely be laid at her feet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-1160324457351152562006-10-08T12:20:00.000-04:002006-10-08T12:20:00.000-04:00Hey Adam,Theaterboy is currently reporting on this...Hey Adam,<BR/><BR/>Theaterboy is currently reporting on this one and trying to get to the bottom of it...<BR/><BR/>http://theaterboy.typepad.com/theaterboy/2006/10/drama_at_the_on.html<BR/><BR/>The info he is getting is a tad different.hpmelonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14589713426020820273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-1160272814270780772006-10-07T22:00:00.000-04:002006-10-07T22:00:00.000-04:001. That's insane.2. O'Neill readers don't get pa...1. That's insane.<BR/><BR/>2. O'Neill readers don't get paid anything, so the idea that your submission fee goes to readers at all is, well, wrong. Sadly.<BR/><BR/>3. While, in terms of the O'Neill, I think the letter's right, it isn't always correct to say that development should garner no rewards. I know a dramaturg who's been developing a musical, with the writers and a director, for a year and a half. When it gets a life, he gets nothing. And yet it never would have been in a position to be produced with out his (sizeable) input. Of course, you can't give everyone a piece of the pie, and this isn't the same situation as an institution giving four days and two readings, but it's just another side of the issue. A very fuzzy, tricky issue that, for purposes of strengthening the argument against the O'Neill's move, might have been oversimplified by the letter.Jaimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08963931779920699803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-1160256702916943492006-10-07T17:31:00.000-04:002006-10-07T17:31:00.000-04:00Thanks for posting this. I got the email as well. ...Thanks for posting this. I got the email as well. I'm *so glad* I got it before I sent my work out.<BR/><BR/>O'Neill had a problem back in 2003/2004, which I covered for my theater column. I don't know what the deal is with them. Maybe somebody over there thinks they should get a raise. <BR/><BR/>Seriously, $35 submission fee to read my work? Sheesh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-1160237229526264172006-10-07T12:07:00.000-04:002006-10-07T12:07:00.000-04:00Wow.Don't know what's crazier - what the O'Neill i...Wow.<BR/><BR/>Don't know what's crazier - what the O'Neill is doing, the tone of the letter or that it was written by Durang and Norman.<BR/><BR/>Wow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com