33The Show Must Go OnSo Must the Process

Nicolle Nattrass

DOI: 10.4324/9781003351344-33

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

—Dorothy Parker

“The show must go on” is a common expression in the live entertainment industry. But when a pandemic hits and Broadway closes for the first time ever, creative artists like actors, playwrights, directors, designers and technical crews are left standing in the wings. With canceled contracts and creative projects on hold, creative artists faced great losses and adversity in many ways, artistically and financially.

Many of my own creative projects were also facing a state of perpetual uncertainty. I was in the process of writing a new one-woman play called Suddenly 50 and was granted a funded ...

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