In each issue of SDC Journal, Executive Board President Evan Yionoulis speaks to the publication’s themes and messages, musing on the intersection between the industry, the work of our Members, and the crafts of stage direction and choreography.

Winter 2024

One of the joys of SDC Executive Board and at-large committee service is that you get to spend time with other direc ...

Fall 2023

In these post-Covid shutdown days, the American theatre is facing daunting challenges. Many of our major regional co ...

Fall 2022

I hope this issue finds you, as I am, back in rehearsal, in a room with a great play whose investigation brings you ...

Spring 2022

We have turned our clocks forward and there is more sun today, and for longer, in our hemisphere. Spring. Theatres a ...

Spring/Summer 2021

On February 8, the SDC Foundation, in a remote celebration, honored the recipients of this year’s awards for excelle ...

Fall 2020

When I look back at my first letter as SDC Executive Board President, which I wrote in January, it feels like a miss ...

Spring 2020

This is my first letter as SDC Executive Board President. It’s a great honor to be following in Pam MacKinnon’s esti ...

Winter 2020

This is my final letter as SDC Board President. I have tasked myself with writing about the accomplishments that we ...

Fall 2019

I joined SDC to direct a production of Donald Margulies’s Dinner with Friends at the Alley Theatre in the spring of ...

Summer 2019

I dropped out of a PhD program in political science at UCSD in 1992, came clean with my advisors, and proceeded to u ...

Spring 2019

It has been quite a season for me as I’ve stepped into my role as Artistic Director while also continuing my artisti ...

Fall 2018/Winter 2019

We live in interesting times. I use the word “interesting” in the same way that it hits me as a comment from an acqu ...

Summer 2018

As I write, I am but a few weeks into my new job as Artistic Director at American Conservatory Theater. No more R ...

Spring 2018

Our Union is on a roll, deepening our work on vital matters of political engagement and workplace conduct and furthe ...

Winter 2018

In like a lion, out like a lamb? Um, no. Not these twelve months. Instead, lions, tigers, and bears all year round. ...

Fall 2017

As I write this letter in mid-August, mayors are pulling down memorial statues of Confederate officers in our cities ...

Summer2017

Summer 2017

This edition of SDC Journal is largely focused on activism and what we as leaders and citizens do in addition to our ...

Winter/Spring 2017

Winter/Spring 2017

Rehearsing when the world goes crazy is both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing to go to work, to be expected ...