Wendy Hammond is the playwright of both The Ghostman and Julie Johnson, which was made into a feature film starring Lili Taylor, Courtney Love and Spalding Gray. Hilary Bettis is the first recipient (2010) of the Abingdon Theatre Cherry Jones Playwriting Fellowship for a female playwright under the age of thirty. The late M.Z. Ribalow served as artistic director of New River Dramatists. He was an award-winning poet, author and playwright, whose plays received some 180 productions worldwide.

• Table of ContentsWHAT IS NEW RIVER?      NEW RIVER DRAMATISTS PLAY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS      INTRODUCTION      Absence by Wendy Hammond      American Girls by Hilary Bettis      Masterpiece by M.Z. Ribalow      ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS

Wendy Hammond is the playwright of both The Ghostman and Julie Johnson, which was made into a feature film starring Lili Taylor, Courtney Love and Spalding Gray. Hilary Bettis is the first recipient (2010) of the Abingdon Theatre Cherry Jones Playwriting Fellowship for a female playwright under the age of thirty. The late M.Z. Ribalow served as artistic director of New River Dramatists. He was an award-winning poet, author and playwright, whose plays received some 180 productions worldwide.

• Table of ContentsWHAT IS NEW RIVER?      NEW RIVER DRAMATISTS PLAY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS      INTRODUCTION      Absence by Wendy Hammond      American Girls by Hilary Bettis      Masterpiece by M.Z. Ribalow      ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS

Wendy Hammond is the playwright of both The Ghostman and Julie Johnson, which was made into a feature film starring Lili Taylor, Courtney Love and Spalding Gray. Hilary Bettis is the first recipient (2010) of the Abingdon Theatre Cherry Jones Playwriting Fellowship for a female playwright under the age of thirty. The late M.Z. Ribalow served as artistic director of New River Dramatists. He was an award-winning poet, author and playwright, whose plays received some 180 productions worldwide.

• Table of ContentsWHAT IS NEW RIVER?      NEW RIVER DRAMATISTS PLAY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS      INTRODUCTION      Absence by Wendy Hammond      American Girls by Hilary Bettis      Masterpiece by M.Z. Ribalow      ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS