playwright

New performers are B Alexander and playwright Joshua Gerschick, who also served as dramaturg.

The job of the director, in this view, is to fulfill the playwright’s vision.

He led chants and cracked jokes and introduced a parade of speakers — among them Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, actor Edward James Olmos and East LA Community Corporation president Monica Mejia — who thanked him for helping spearhead the mural, along with playwright Josefina Lopez and artist Robert Vargas.

But a playwright must figure out what story he’d like to pull out of the mass of real-life material.

I told her to call playwright and drag artist Charles Busch and ask him to do an overhaul.