HowlRound
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| owner = Emerson College
| author = P. Carl, David Dower, Jamie Gahlon, and Vijay Mathew
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HowlRound Theatre Commons is a non-profit service organization based out of Emerson College's Office of the Arts. Its aim is to support developing theatre practitioners and facilitating dialogue within not-for-profit theatre and performance arts field.{{Cite web|url=http://howlround.com/modeling-a-theater-commons|title=Modeling a Theater Commons|website=HowlRound|access-date=2016-06-15}} Theatre Commons' platforms use commons-based peer production as their content methodology.{{Cite web|url=https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/10/howlround/|title=Curtain up on HowlRound, the theater knowledge commons|date=2016-11-10|website=Creative Commons|access-date=2017-09-09}}{{Cite web|url=http://howlround.com/about|title=About|website=HowlRound|access-date=2016-06-15}}
Projects
HowlRound's projects include an online Journal,{{Cite news|url=http://howlround.com/journal|title=Journal|work=HowlRound|access-date=2017-09-09|language=en}} a livestreaming TV channel, and the World Theatre Map.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldtheatremap.org/en/about|title=About the World Theatre Map|website=World Theatre Map}} HowlRound also produces in-person convenings.{{Cite web|url=https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/10/howlround/|title=Curtain up on HowlRound, the theater knowledge commons|date=2016-11-10|website=Creative Commons|access-date=2017-09-09}}{{Cite news|url=http://howlround.com/convenings|title=Convenings|work=HowlRound|access-date=2017-09-09|language=en}} In 2013, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and HowlRound began a National Playwright Residency Program.{{cite web |title=National Playwright Residency Program (NPRP) |url=https://www.dramatistsguild.com/organization/4558 |website=www.dramatistsguild.com |access-date=24 March 2021}}{{cite web |title=National Playwright Residency Program |url=https://howlround.com/residencies |website=HowlRound Theatre Commons |access-date=24 March 2021 |language=en}}
History
HowlRound first started as an online journal launched in 2011, created by P. Carl, David Dower, Jamie Gahlon, and Vijay Mathew{{Cite web|url=http://www.bollier.org/blog/howlround-brings-commoning-theater|title=HowlRound Brings Commoning to the Theater {{!}} David Bollier|website=www.bollier.org|language=en|access-date=2017-09-09}} as part of the American Voices New Play Institute (AVNPI).{{Cite web|url=http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/why-peer-production-thrives-field-theater-arts|title=Why Peer Production Thrives in the Field of Theater Arts {{!}} On the Commons|website=www.onthecommons.org|access-date=2016-06-15}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/issue/featuredstory.cfm?story=8&indexID=37|title=American Theatre – November 2013|website=www.tcg.org|access-date=2016-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117015602/http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/issue/featuredstory.cfm?story=8&indexID=37|archive-date=2015-11-17|url-status=dead}} The concept for HowlRound evolved out of work and research performed in 2005 and 2006 and the writings of David Dower's "The Gates of Opportunity" and Todd London and Ben Pesner's Outrageous Fortune, both of which examined the lack of institutional support and resources in the non-profit theatre community. In December 2011 it was decided that all of the documentation and dissemination work of the AVNPI would move to Emerson College in Boston. This included the HowlRound journal, the livestreaming television channel then called NewPlay TV (now HowlRound TV), the New Play Map, and all of the convening activity. At the time of the move, it was decided that the entirety of the work would come under the name "HowlRound" and that the remaining parts of AVNPI would remain at Arena Stage. In July 2012, HowlRound officially began operations at Emerson College.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2015/02/05/artsemerson-expands-leadership-team/bCTWnR0ZwZXWxpUd6FvYVK/story.html|title=ArtsEmerson expands leadership team - The Boston Globe|work=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=2017-09-09}}{{cite news | first=Rob | last=Weinert-Kendt | title=The Commons Touch| date=October 2012 | work =American Theatre}}, Vol. 29, Iss. 8