August 14, 2020
A Register-Guard feature on my recent Oregon Arts Commission grant to develop my short play into an inclusive, collaborative site-based work.
April 24, 2020
A feature by Paul Calandrino about Theatre in a Pandemic, including an update on my projects near and far.
March 30, 2020
A feature in the local paper, about theatre’s response to Covid-19.
Some people can’t access it from behind the firewall, so here it is:
CAFE 541_ Carnes_ Keeping the ghostlights lit – Entertainment – The Register-Guard – Eugene, OR
March 11, 2020
I was excited to see my feature on the Eugene Theatre Scene in this month’s issue of the Dramatist magazine, published by the Dramatist Guild of America:
It’s fun to use my journalist skills to write about theatre in the place I call home.
February 29, 2020
“In Wabi Sabi, Mx. Rodriguez plays a mysterious high school student with a mania for the Japanese tea ceremony, and Stasia Kroeger is a whimsical teenaged girl in the library who can’t figure out who this new kid is, or why he’s breaking the library rules on food and drink, with a thermos, cup, and the peculiar implements of the ritual. But again, the mystery here is in finding out who the “normal” people are, in relation to a changing world around them. The tea ceremony serves as a perfect re-introduction between two old (young) friends.”
Read the Talkin Broadway review of Transluminate here.
February 26, 2020
Pretty fabulous news: My play PRACTICE HOUSE has been invited to the 2020 Great Plains Theatre Conference!
It was one of 20 plays selected out of more than 800 submissions, and I’m excited to receive airfare, accommodation and a stipend to spend the week diving even deeper into this play that I love!
February 24
Coming soon to Hollywood: BINDERS!
Read the preview in Broadway World.
February 14, 2020
#CodeRedPlaywrights news —
It’s the two-year anniversary since the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, the event that spurred me to found Code Red Playwrights: #ENOUGH. And we’re still writing. Thanks to John Minigan, Holly Yurth Richards, Jello Diamond for sharing their plays here. Thank you to Priya Singh, Chris Esparza and Elias Baldwin-Bonney for sharing their talents. And gratitude to Elizabeth Gabriel and KLCC for this beautiful coverage.
February 7, 2020
Publication news —Grateful to Feels Blind Literary and editor Lindsay Klarc Chudzik for featuring my play “Contrapposto” in the latest issue. The piece premiered in London at The UnDisposables and was recently produced by Oregon Contemporary Theatre. In the play, the goddess Venus, and painter Sandro Botticelli, battle it out. It’s a #MeToo convo, set in 1485.
Red the issue here.
Johanna Meehan
January 17, 2020
It’s been a big week!
The Oregon Literary Arts organization announced the 2020 Literary Fellowships, and I’m one of the recipients! Amazing!
And on the other side of the country, a news feature in Broadway World describes the continuing dedication of my play “Permission” to raising funds for the Mount Sinai SAVI program, an organization that supports victims of sexual assault. Read more about our collaboration in Broadway World
January 9, 2020
Many thanks to Oregon Arts Watch for including me in their Vision 2020 Series. Here’s an interview, written by David Bates:
Jan 3, 2020
Thrilled to open up today’s newsletter and see an announcement for my new role as an Ambassador for the Dramatists Guild of America.
Are you a member? Is your organization affiliated? Let’s connect!
Dec 20, 2019
Thanks, H. Adam Harris at the Playwrights’ Center (PWC) in Minneapolis, for asking me to write about taking advantage of the many playwriting resources out there, in a recent feature for their membership. And thanks to New Play Exchange’s Gwydion Suilebahn, the Dramatists Guild Institute’s Gary Garrison and playwrights/Dramatist Guild Representatives Donna Hoke and Stephen Kaplan, for sharing your expertise!
Find the feature in this week’s PWC newsletter, and on the PWC website.
