Decentered Playwriting

Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and marginalized storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters dominant dramatic methodologies. A collection of short essays and exercises by leading teaching artists, playwrights, and academics in the fields of playwriting and dramaturgy, this book focuses on reimagining pedagogical techniques, helping playwrights to unlearn their own implicit biases, introducing playwrights to new storytelling methods, traditions, and ways of studying and teaching underrepresented narratological practices. This is a vital and invaluable book for anyone teaching or studying playwriting, dramatic structure or storytelling at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, or as part of their own professional practice.