What would it take for Seattle to become a hotbed for playwrights?

The Seattle Times: Playwriting can be a precarious profession in a city with as high of a cost of living as Seattle. Even before the pandemic, as playwright Nikki Yeboah, known for her work as an oral historian and performer, pointed out, people didn’t get paid much to write plays. But as COVID-19 upended the theater industry, it exposed just how tenuous the support system really is around writers who are trying to make a living creating new work for the stage, especially those outside of major theater markets like New York City.