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Jenny Lyn Bader

S1 E6: Whose Line (Ending) Is It Anyway?

• In Flight (2015)
  

Mike Bartlett (1980--)

S1 E10: SIlences, Spacing, Stage Directions & Shared Lines

• Cock (2009)
  
• King Charles III (2014)
  

Monica Cross

S3 E13: INTERVIEW: Monica Cross Discusses Line Endings!

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• Wonder of Our Stage (2017)
• The Salt-Filled Path (2020)
• Braden the Burglar: A Cautionary Tale for Liars and Thieves (2021)
  
• The Magpie's Golden Ring - a monologue (2021)
  
• Ariadne's Wake (2022)
• Changeling (2022)
• Double-Cross-Dressing (2022)
• Hero Dogberry (2023)
  
• This Is and Is Not Cressid (In development in 2023)
  

Matthew Freeman

S2 E10: New Arthur, New Millennia

• The Death of King Arthur (2001)
  

Lauren Gunderson (1982--)

S1 E3: Schwumpf, THere It Is

S1 E9: The RUles of Emotive Formatting

• Leap (2002, 2003)
• Fire Work (2009, 2014)
• The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful (And Her Dog!) (2011, 2013)
• I and You (2012, 2013)
  
• By and By (2013)
  
• The Health (2014, 2018)
  
• The Revolutionists (2014, 2015)
• The Book of Will (2016, 2017)
• Natural Shocks: A One-Woman Play in a Tornado (2018)
• Trojan Woman ATL* (2018)
• Earthrise (2019)
• Peter Pan and Wendy: A New Old Adventure (2019)
• The Catastrophist (2021)

Daniel Guyton

S1 E4: Heresy!

S1 E5: So You Think You Know Scansion?

S1 E6: Whose Line (Ending) Is It Anyway?

• Don Wannabe (2002)
  
• The Mother of God Visits Hell (2009)
  

Glyn Maxwell (1962--)

Interview: Glyn Maxwell

• The Forever Waltz (2004)
• The Birds (Opera) (2005), composer Dudley Hughes
• Plays One: The Lifeblood, Wolfpit, The Only Girl in the World (2005)
• Plays Two: Broken Journey, Best Man Speech, The Last Valentine (2006)
• Liberty (2008)
• Mimi and the Stalker (2009)
• After Troy (2010)
• The Lion's Face (Opera) (2010), composer Elena Langer
• Merlin and the Woods of Time (2011)
  
• Seven Angels (Opera) (2011), composer Luke Bedford
• Masters Are You Mad? (2012)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (Adapted from Edmond Rostand) (2013), composer David Bruce
• The Firework Maker's Daughter (Opera) (2013)
• Nothing (Opera) (2016), composer David Bruce
• Plays Three: Alice in Wonderland, Wind in the Willows, Merlin and the Woods of Time (2017)
• On Poetry (2020)

Caeden Musser

S1 E6: Whose Line (Ending) Is It Anyway?

S1 E10: SIlences, Spacing, Stage Directions & Shared Lines

Interview: Caeden Musser

• The Lifted Instants Before the Fall: A Tale of Troy (2017, 2023)
  

Lucy Nordberg

Round Table of the Round Table: Lucy Nordberg, Daniel James Roth, Emily C. A. Snyder

• King Arthur (2009)
  

Peter Oswald (1965--)

Interview: Peter Oswald

• Allbright (Date Unknown)
• Valadonoma (Date Unknown)
• Sha Kuntala (Date Unknown)
• Namshe's Celestial Boudoir (Date Unknown)
• Kaspar Hauser (Date Unknown)
• Supper with the Emperor (Date Unknown)
• Two Towers (Date Unknown)
  
• The Great Howard (Date Unknown)
  
• The Gododdin (Date Unknown)
  
• Sif (Date Unknown) - A reworking of the first part of Augustine's Oak into the first of a play cycle
  
• Deep Time Walk: A History of the Living Earth (Date Unknown)
  
• Helen (1985)
  
• Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards (1996)
• Augustine's Oak (1999)
  
• Odysseus (1999)
• The Ramayana: A Play of the Hindu Epic (2001)
  
• The Golden Ass or the Curious Man (2002)
• Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair: A Bicentennial Celebration of Wordsworth's Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge (2002)
• The Storm, or 'The Howler' (2005) - A reworking of Plautus' play The Rope
  
• Mary Stuart (2005) - After Schiller's Mary Stuart
  
• Lopez (2006?) - Written as a companion piece to Mary Stuart
  
• Lucifer Saved (2007)
  
• The Temple (2008)
  
• Weyland: A Poem (2008)
  
• Three Folktales (2015)
  
• Egil: Part One (2016) - Videos
  
• Cyrano (2019) - A translation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
• Dmitry (2022) - Inspired by Schiller's Demetrius

James Parenti

• May Violets Spring: A New Story for a New Ophelia (2014)
  
• Our Hanging-Ropes (2016), reworked as How Much of Me Is You
  

Duncan Pflaster
(1973--)

• Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants (2005)
  
• The Thyme of the Season, or A Mid-Autumn Night's Dream (2007)
  
• Ore, or Or (2009)
  
• The Empress of Sex (2012)
  
• The Tragedy of Dandelion (2014)
  
• Dear Little Butterface, or the Uncommon Hoor (2016)
  
• Cockeye(D) (2017)
  
• Malvolio's Revenge (2019)
  
• Lady in Waiting (2019)
  
• Julio and Rose (2020)
  
• Nothing But Thunder (2023)
  
• Harmony Hall (2023)
  

Arthur Phillips (1969--)

• The Tragedy of Arthur (2013)
  

Laura Pittenger

S1 E3: Schwumpf, THere It Is

• The HVAC Plays (Or, Adventures in Living Without Basic Necessities, Like Heat and Air Conditioning) (2014)
  
• The Flesh From Their Bones (2017)
  
• 1 Bed 1 Bath (2018)

Daniel James Roth

S2 E12: The First Folio in the 21st Century: Daniel James Roth's "The Tragedy of King Arthur"

Round Table of the Round Table: Lucy Nordberg, Daniel James Roth, Emily C. A. Snyder

Round Table: Daniel James Roth, Grace Bardsley, Benedetto Robinson

• The Tragedy of King Arthur (2019)
  

Sarah Ruhl (1974--)

S1 E3: Schwumpf, THere It Is

S1 E10: SIlences, Spacing, Stage Directions & Shared Lines

• Melancholy Play (2002) - Original play adapted into Melancholy Play: a chamber musical in with music by Greg Hirte, and direction by Jessica Thebus (2012)
• Eurydice (2003) - Original play adapted into a libretto with music by Matthew Aucoin, and direction by Mary Zimmerman (2020)
• The Clean House (2004)
• Passion Play (2002, 2005)
• Demeter in the City (2006)
• Dead Man's Cell Phone (2007)
• In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play (2009)
• Orlando (adapted from the original by Virginia Woolf) (2010)
• Stage Kiss (2011)
  
• Three Sisters (Translated from the original by Anton Chekhov) (2011)
  
• Dear Elizabeth (2012)
• Scenes from Court Life (2016)
• For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday (2017)

Michael Shenefelt

• Heloise (2019) - review, review
  

Emily C. A. Snyder
(1977--)

S1 E2: Content Dictates Form

S1 E5: So You Think You Know Scansion?

S1 E7: What's my line (ending)?

S1 E10: SIlences, Spacing, Stage Directions & Shared Lines

S1 E13: Stage Violence and Verse: The Table Round and The Siege Perilous by Emily C. A. Snyder

Round Table of the Round Table: Lucy Nordberg, Daniel James Roth, Emily C. A. Snyder

• Cupid and Psyche: Bad Quarto (2009)
• Turn to Flesh (2011)
• To the Dark Tower Came (2011)
• Becket (2011 - Fragment)
• Vengeance Becomes Electra (2013)
• Galatea (2013)
• Pygmalion (2014 - Fragment)
• Atalanta's Heel (2014 - Fragment)
• Cupid and Psyche (2014, 2018, 2022)
• A Comedy of Heirors, or The Imposters (2017)
• Persephone Rises (2014, 2018)
• The Seduction of Adonis (2018)
• The Merry Widows of Windsor (2018)
• The Other, Other Woman (2018)
• A Midsummer Night's Brexit (2018)
• The Distance That's Between Us Is the Moon (2019)
• Tiresias (2019)
• All's Well That Ends. (2019)
• The Table Round and The Siege Perilous (2019)
  
• Juliet and Her Romeo (2020)/Romeo and Juliet Combative (2019)
• Here (2020)
• Tiresias Before the Gates (2020)
• The Wild Hunt (2022 - Fragment)
• Romancing the Moon (2022 - Fragment)
• New Verse Scenes & Soliloquies, Vol 1 (38 Experimental Pieces - 2022)
• The Inventor's Apprentice (2022)

Stuart Spencer

S1 E2: Content Dictates Form

• Go To Ground: A Play About a Fox Hunt (2009?)
  

Simon Stone (1984--)

• Thyestes (2010), after Seneca, co-writing with Mark Leonard Winter, Thomas Henning and Chris Ryan
• Medea (2014), adapted after Euripides
  
• Yerma (2016), adapted after Federico Garcia Lorca
  

Deb Victoroff

S1 E1: Defining Verse Drama

S1 E3: Schwumpf, THere It Is

INTERVIEW: Deb Victoroff

• The Tragedy of the Election of the Citrus King (2018)