365 Days/365 Plays: A Progress Report

Writing a play every day for a whole year — as Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks did in 2004 — is an amazing feat, but, like running a marathon (the author even likens herself to athlete Lance Armstrong) it's mainly about getting to the finish line, not running an interesting or meaningful route. Much more interesting and important is the producing model invented by Parks and her collaborato
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On November 13, 2006, the largest shared world premiere in the history of the American Theatre—maybe in the universe, so far—opened across the United States, as Suzan-Lori Parks’s 365 Days/365 Plays took the stage. It was exactly four years since Ms. Parks began writing a play a day on November 13, 2002, and just a few months after she’d won the Pulitzer Prize for Topdog/Underdog.

There was considerable buzz at the time, with theatres from Seattle to San Antonio, and all areas between and beyond, stepping forward to produce the works. But now that the initial hum has faded a bit, how are things going with this unprecedented project, just a little over two months in?

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Howard Emanuel
About the Author
As an actor, Howard Emanuel has appeared across the USA in regional theatres ranging from The Paper Mill Playhouse and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey to the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and Houston's Theatre Under The Stars. As a playwright, he has recently completed his first full-length work, Last Supper. As a novelist, his urban fiction manuscript, Naked Angels, is currently being shopped to various publishing houses. He is currently hard at work on his second and third plays. He holds a B.F.A. in Acting from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.