Category Archives: The Blog

ONSTAGE: ON-AIR Episode 2 is live!

Hello, hello, hello!  Our second ONSTAGE: ON-AIR podcast is live, and we can’t wait to share it with you! Listen or download now to make sure you don’t miss our interviews with partner producers Steven Landry and Etienna Wright at … Continue reading

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Introducing our 2016 ONSTAGE Playwrights!

I am beyond thrilled to be working with such talented women on this year’s Female Playwrights ONSTAGE Festival!  Talk about fun – each playwright’s world is unique, and together they create a fantastic lineup that will leave you laughing, thinking, … Continue reading

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Announcing the 2016 ONSTAGE Final Line-Up!

Welp, it’s been a seriously rough couple of weeks for this producer: this year’s ONSTAGE Finalists were all so fantastic that narrowing the list down to a producable number was heart-breakingly difficult!  I can only say that after a lot … Continue reading

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Cheering on the Finalists

By Guest Blogger and 2016 ONSTAGE Finalist, Melanie Ewbank I just saw the LBDI Facebook post announcing the final-finalist reading at Sam French Bookshop. I clicked the LIKE button. I am pretty excited to “see who wins.” If you were … Continue reading

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Honored and Amazed

By Guest Blogger and 2016 ONSTAGE Finalist, Playwright Elizabeth Coplan My name is “Elizabeth Coplan and I wrote Hospice: A Love Story,” I told the audience at curtain call. Did I hear a collective gasp of appreciation? More likely it … Continue reading

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Announcing our 2016 ONSTAGE Finalists!

ONSTAGE has had an awesome year so far!  Our Partner Producers in Lafayette, Ithaca, Sedona, Los Angeles, Ames, and Auburn have gone beautifully, and I couldn’t be happier with our list of finalists… now I just have to winnow this … Continue reading

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From Bloomington to Broadway

By guest blogger, ONSTAGE semi-finalist Amy Drake I’m so excited about having my play MODEL BEHAVIOR read at Little Black Dress INK’s 2016 Female Playwrights ONSTAGE Project in Ames, Iowa! Here’s why: according to The Broadway League a full 49.2% … Continue reading

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Female Playwrights ONSTAGE Semi-Finalist Readings

We are thrilled to share our 2016 ONSTAGE Semi-Finalist reading schedule with you!  (Updates with IA and AL reading dates/times forthcoming) READING SCHEDULE: Lafayette, LA: April 1st and 2nd with Acadiana Repertory Theatre DANGLING, by Deneen Reynolds-Knott JACK PORK, by … Continue reading

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2016 is Going to be our Biggest Festival Yet

Little Black Dress INK is thrilled to announce that our Female Playwrights ONSTAGE Project will receive its first rolling premiere in 2016 through a partnership with Acadiana Repertory Theater (ART) in Lafayette, LA!  Little Black Dress INK is a female … Continue reading

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Part III: Producer Talks With Playwright/Playwright Talks With Producer

Tiffany Antone & Jen Huszcza have a chat (via email) This is Part III of a three-part conversation playwright Jen Huszcza and I had about Little Black Dress INK’s ONSTAGE Project festival.  I want to thank Jen for conceiving of … Continue reading

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