The Legacy Playwrights Initiative: Honoring Those Still Among Us
L-R: Carlyle Brown, Constance Congdon, Philip Kan Gotanda, and Todd London at the 2022 DGF Gala. Photo by Rebecca Michelson.
L-R: Carlyle Brown, Constance Congdon, Philip Kan Gotanda, and Todd London at the 2022 DGF Gala. Photo by Rebecca Michelson.

If you are reading this magazine, I suspect that, at some point in your past, a play or playwright changed the direction of your life. It might have been a teacher or the first sighting of piece of theatre that tripped your creative desire, the physical sensation that mingles breath and ambition: aspiration. Chances are good, too, that if this experience happened more than a minute ago, you’ve seen that life-changing artist (and that play) slip down the great maw of forgetfulness that distinguishes our national culture.

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Todd London
Todd London

’s many books include two novels, If You See Him, Let Me Know and The World’s Room, and writings about the theatre, including This Is Not My Memoir, with Andre Gregory; An Ideal Theater; and Outrageous Fortune. The inaugural recipient of TCG’s Visionary Leadership Award, Todd spent eighteen years as artistic director of New York’s New Dramatists. Todd manages the Legacy Playwrights Initiative at the Dramatists Guild Foundation.