SDCF Masters of the Stage - 2002 Symposium: Magic To Do: The Writer Director Relationship - June, 2002

American Theatre Wing: "At its 2002 Musical Theatre Symposium, SDCF hosted a panel on the writer-director relationship featuring Urinetown composer/lyricist Greg Kotis, The Wild Party composer Andrew Lippa and director Gabriel Barre, Violet composer Jeanine Tesori, bookwriter/lyricist Brian Crawley and director Susan H. Schulman, Side Show director Robert Longbottom, Jelly's Last Jam lyricist Susan Birkenhead, and tick, tick...BOOM! and Bat Boy director Scott Schwartz, moderated by Manhattan Theatre Club Musical Theatre Program director Clifford Lee Johnson. The panelists discuss the formation of their writer-director relationship on each of these shows.