This series documents and preserves the creative process of America's most esteemed writers for the theater in a series of filmed conversations, each featuring an established stage author (or team of collaborators) being interviewed by an emerging writer. The featured writers include:

THOMAS MEEHAN is best known for his work as the librettist on the Tony Award-winning shows Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray. Interviewed by Douglas Carter Beane (Xanadu). 37 minutes.

TOM JONES and HARVEY SCHMIDTare best known for their musical The Fantasticks. Its original Off-Broadway production ran for a record-setting 42 years and introduced the hit song "Try To Remember". Other works include 110 in the Shade, I Do! I Do!, and Celebration. Interviewed by Carol Hall (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas). 49 minutes.

LYNN AHRENS and STEPHEN FLAHERTY wrote the music and lyrics for the Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime. Their other works include Once On This Island, Seussical, and A Man of No Importance. Interviewed by Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party). 51 minutes.

MARY RODGERS is the composer of the Tony-nominated musical Once Upon a Mattress, one of the most produced musicals in the world. Daughter of legendary composer Richard Rodgers, her other theatrical works include Hot Spot and Working. She also penned the children’s book and subsequent screenplay Freaky Friday. Interviewed by Marsha Norman (‘night Mother). 36 minutes.

JULES FEIFFER is the author of the Obie-winning play Little Murders; the Tony-nominated Knock, Knock; Elliot Loves; and A Bad Friend. Interviewed by Paul Rudnick (Jeffrey). 44 minutes.

TERRENCE MCNALLY was cited as "one of our most original and audacious dramatists" by The New Yorker. His work spans plays, films, television, operas, and musicals. His librettos include Ragtime and Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Notable plays include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; The Lisbon Traviata; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Master Class; Corpus Christi; and Deuce. Interviewed by Annie Baker (Circle Mirror Transformation). 46 minutes

TINA HOWE is the mastermind behind the celebrated works The Nest, Birth and After Birth, Museum, The Art of Dining, Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances, Approaching Zanzibar, One Shoe Off, and Pride’s Crossing. Interviewed by Sarah Ruhl (In the Next Room - or The Vibrator Play). 39 minutes.

CHARLES FULLER is the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his drama A Soldiers Play. He also founded the Afro-American Arts Theatre in Philadelphia. Other plays include the Obie-winning Zooman and the Sign, The Perfect Party , and The Brownsville Raid. Interviewed by Lynn Nottage (Ruined). 45 minutes.

FRANK GILROY is the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright of The Subject Was Roses. Other notable plays include Who'll Save the Plowboy? and Contact With the Enemy. Interviewed by Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife). 53 minutes.

JOHN GUARE authored the critically-acclaimed play The House of Blue Leaves winning an Obie and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award when it was first produced on Broadway. Its 1986 revival, won four Tony awards. Guare’s landmark work, Six Degrees of Separation, received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Olivier Best Play Award. Interviewed by Theresa Rebeck (Seminar). 42 minutes.