In each issue of SDC Journal, SDC’s Executive Director Laura Penn 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.
Now is a moment of disruption—disruption across the field. An extended, painful disruption that ...
Fall 1997, well past midnight: I was sitting with my fellow members of the Theater panel in the ...
Hazard and hope. Meeting with hazard and hope. This is how Aaron Frankel remembered the “smoke-f ...
By the time this issue hits your mailbox, Network for Cultural and Arts Policy (NCAP) will be we ...
Someday, I may go back and see how many of these letters I have written while flying across the ...
We are on the eve of the 60th anniversary of SDC. I just imagined this issue of SDC Journal sitt ...
“Communication is oxygen.” That’s not my slogan—it’s a core value for employees working for Word ...
Remember bulletin boards? Not cork boards-the online kind. According to Techopedia, “A Bul ...
Seattle’s influence as a theatrical leader has been constant since the founding of the regional ...
I spend my days thinking about directors and choreographers. Lately, I’ve been gratified to find ...
Please save me from googling. I begin this letter for each issue by reviewing the magazine and c ...
Everything goes in cycles, right? There was a time, in the early years of my career, when a “com ...
April 2017 will mark 58 years since the founding of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ...
With the energy and input of the SDC Journal Editorial Advisory Committee, we plan our issues of ...
We are activists here at SDC. Our day-to-day work includes advocating for of directors and chore ...
Nearly 20 years ago in Seattle, Tony Kushner gave a speech at Meany Hall on campus at the Univer ...
As we prepare to send this issue of SDC Journal to the printer, I am headed to Ohio for parents’ ...
When I began at SDC in 2007, I asked the staff and Executive Board leadership for a list of thos ...
SDC has been at 1501 Broadway for 40+ years. Can you imagine what’s in the back room filing cabi ...
“Have the courage to follow your most idiosyncratic instinct. Find that most radical, insurmount ...
In August of 1986, I said goodbye to my friends and colleagues at Arena Stage and set course for ...
‘Tis the season. Let the summer rituals begin. For many theatres and theatre artists the season ...
Moss Hart was one of the founders of SDC. As someone who overcame a childhood of abject poverty ...
As we enter a new year it feels cliché to talk about how fast time is moving, but there is somet ...
On April 17, 1959, Hanya Holm sat with Shepard Traube and Agnes de Mille to witness the signing ...
Nelson Mandela once said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” It seems impossible to i ...
Most of us want the work we do to make a difference, to contribute somehow to those we connect w ...
When I was in junior high school, my mom put me on a one-hour Greyhound bus ride to San Francisc ...
For this second edition of the SDC Journal we feature a moment with Agnes de Mille on our final ...
When I first arrived at SDC in the spring of 2008, it was on the eve of the Union’s historic 50t ...