Lauren Gunderson

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Um, you know, I remember with our episode with Lauren Gunderson, she's like, "If I do not know the ending I like will not write the play." Like where Amy Berryman is a little bit more like, you know, flu- Like, people just have like different ways.

Yeah.

And I, I really appreciate that you're like, "Yeah, this particular like structure is something that I've had in my body-

But first, there's lots more news to share about shows and auditions happening at your favorite Mid-Willamette Valley theaters, so let's check the KMUZ Theater Talk calendar.

For the McMinnville and Newburgh Area Theaters, at Gallery Theater in downtown McMinnville, next up, October 16th through November 1st, is Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson and directed by Marlon Nuttman.

This true story centers on Henrietta Leavitt, who, in the early 1900s, begins to work at the Harvard Observatory, where women are hired not to explore the stars, but to record the work of men who do.

As one of the female computers, Henrietta is expected to chart the skies without questioning what she sees.

Hi everybody,

this is Lauren Gunderson and this is a special episode of How to Playwright because this one is in community with a really cool movement, organization, cohort that is here to welcome all of you that I found out through the absolutely inimitable Lynn Nottage.

She and a bunch of artists have organized this call to action, a call to what they say is a creative resistance.

It's called Fall of Freedom and it's a group of activities, performances, gatherings, It's its second year, second time, and it's this October 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.

And, uh, now it, it is the joy of discovery, and it is finding something.

I have a quote by Lauren Gunderson, another female playwright-

Mm-hmm

... who has been produced widely across the United States, although she's never had a Broadway production.

She took things and could redesign them and, and make them more useful.

But she says in this play, talking about the joy of discovering and working in your lab.

So Lauren Gunderson from The Half-Life of Marie Curie has Herta Ayrton say, "The curtain opens.

You have seconds to peer in to find the truth, and then proof.

And then we walked a bit to get to the second one, which was dedicated to Lorraine Hansberry.

And then we walked more to the Southern Oregon University campus, um, and there was one dedicated to Lauren Gunderson.

And admittedly, like, I didn't know those last two playwrights until this walk, so it was really cool to, like, now learn about them and read about them.

And then I saw Lauren Gunderson, like, referenced recently somewhere, and I was like, "Oh, that's really cool." Like, I just learned about her on the pl- the walk.

Um, we, the walk took us to places we wouldn't have seen if we didn't go on the tour, which was really cool.

Um, we walked a lot, and we found a park we probably wouldn't have gone to.

But it's always good to try and it's always good to see.

And I'm going to give a shout out to the excellent Lauren Gunderson, who someday I hope to have on this show.

Anyway, I would be thrilled to have her on the show, but she talks a lot about sort of the structure of plays and The most recent episode I've been listening to is the one about midpoints.

How do you get to the midpoint? What does it mean to be at the midpoint? What has to happen dramatically in a play at the midpoint? And I feel like broad strokes, I am absolutely what she's talking about.

Hey, everybody.

Lauren Gunderson.

This episode, we're going to talk about The List.

It was just published, the American Theatre Magazine's annual tally of the most produced plays in their cohort of Laureate Theatres and the most produced playwrights.

Just gorgeous.

Hi everybody, this is Lauren Gunderson.

Another episode of How to Playwright that is focusing on something that I get asked a lot and oddly have not done an episode about it yet.

And it seems pretty obvious when I will tell you what it is because it's probably the first thing that people think about when they think about plays and playwriting and that is dialogue.