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Each edition of the Occasional invites a guest editor to talk with artists, thinkers, and members of our community about questions that we have and topics that move us. For the second installment, Sylvan Oswald asks directors how they approach texts that are out of the mainstream of theater's conventions.

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Will Arbery is a playwright, performer, and filmmaker from Texas + Wyoming. His playPLANOwill premiere atClubbed Thumb's Summerworksthis June. His playEvanston Salt Costs Climbingwill premiere at New Neighborhood/White Heron this August. He's currently under commission at Playwrights Horizons. His play Wheelchair is being published by3 Hole Pressthis June, with an introduction by Bill Callahan. He's a member ofThe Working Farmat SPACE on Ryder Farm,EST/Youngblood, a member ofCalliope, andtherecipient of a 2016-2017Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists. His work hasbeen developed atPlaywrights Horizons,Vineyard Theater,Clubbed Thumb,Ojai Playwrights Conference,Cape Cod Theater Project,The New Group,EST/Youngblood,The Bushwick Starr,Theater Masters,Alliance Theatre/Kendeda,Tofte Lake Center,Calliope,The Watermill Center (with BOOMERANG),100W Corsicana,Two Headed RepandWhite Heron. His playThe Mongoosewas anL.A. TimesCritic's Pick and winner of the 2017 Stage Raw Theatre Award for Best Playwriting.His dance work with BOOMERANG has performed atSteppenwolf, PULSE Miami,The Watermill Center, andMCA Chicago, and has been featured onDesus & MeroandCreators Project. Short plays at: EST/Youngblood, Williamstown Theatre Festival, JACK, Little Theater, #serials at The Flea,Samuel French OOB Festival (winner),Living Room Playmakers,American Theater Company,Hearth Gods, and more. He's been featured inPurple Mag,Howl Round,I Interview Playwrights, andTDF Stages.His writing has been published byBetter Magazine,Word Riot,decomP,The Awl,Howl Round,Timber,Neutrons Protons,Snow Monkey,and more. He was named one ofVariety's ""110 Students to Watch."" He's the former Writing & Research Assistant forYoung Jean Lee. MFA inWriting for the Screen + Stage from Northwestern University.BA in English & Drama fromKenyon College. He grew up in Dallas, TX, the only boy with seven sisters.

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