This article was published on February 18, 2015

“Summit Soliloquies” is a video series leading up to the 2015 Colorado New Play Summit where playwrights from past and present Summits talk about writing, the Denver Center, the Summit and more. Here, DCPA Playwriting Fellow Matthew Lopez (“The Legend of Georgia McBride”) talks about the Denver Center’s new-play program.

TEXT OF MATTHEW LOPEZ’S COMMENTS:

“The reason  the Colorado New Play Summit is so important, and so unique, is for the sheer fact that it focuses almost all of its attention on the writer, and the writer’s process.

Writing new plays is incredibly difficult, and it feels very lonely at times, and it’s nice to know that there are people who spend not just these two weeks of the Summit, but the entire year planning the Summit really thinking very, very carefully and very passionately about writers and their work.

It’s nice to know that there are people out there who care. And then to get invited here to participate is a dream come true. It’s a lot of fun. And you get a lot of work done.”