Drama Desk-nominated musical theater writer. SCOTLAND, PA, ORDINARY DAYS & more. Instagram: @gwonster

Joined May 2011
For much of political media, the objective is no longer about informing voters. It's solely about the horse race. It's about clicks and views and scoops and book deals and if there's any room left after that, keeping the public contextualized is a neat little bonus.
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My parents loved Angela Lansbury and they passed that appreciation down to me. When I was the theater reporter at the NYT, an interview I did with her brought things full circle. I wrote about her, and my parents, this weekend for ⁦@nytopinion⁩ nytimes.com/2022/10/15/opini…
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Overheard in New York: "Look, sometimes people born male grow up and realise they identify as female. Sometimes my E train identifies as an F train. I just get off at Bryant Park and walk. I don't become a fascist over it."
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Adam Gwon retweeted
Dramatists Guild
@dramatistsguild19 Aug 2022
General registration is now open for the DGI's Fall 2022 semester! dginstitute.org/fall-2022 You don't have to be a DG member to take one of our continuing education dramatic writing courses. We encourage you to share our list of online writing workshops with family and friends.
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Adam Gwon retweeted
#icymi @MartynaMajok, Jeanine Tesori, Nancy Garcia Loza, Ren Dara Santiago, Madhuri Shekar, Sharai Bohannon, Mariam Bazeed and More Celebrate Their Dramatists Guild Awards @JoesPub; DG pres @amanda_green performed & hosted wp.me/pXK8r-442 📸@liachang
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.@AdamGwon What an amazing song! So beautiful. Just like what @tellyleung said, this song is more important than ever with the rise in hate crimes against the #AAPI community. #AAPIHertiageMonth #AANHPIHM #StopAsianHate
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All donations made today will be DOUBLED by a matching donor. We’re $1,506 away from reaching our $5,000 goal. Will you help us get there? Here’s a message from composer/lyricist @AdamGwon about why you should support! #primarystages #supportnewplays bit.ly/3vqFX2D
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Two best Judies navigate the insane she-nanigans life throws at them in the hilarious new #LGBTQcomedy web series ‘What A Drag,’ #NowStreaming on Dekkoo courtesy of @JohnWascavage! 🌈 dekkoo.com/what-a-drag
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Sixteen previously unrecorded tracks from writers like @AdamGwon, Peter Kellogg, and more will be released by @BwayRecords! bit.ly/16StoriesBwayRec
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Check out @ProspectTheater's NOTES FROM NOW: SONGS OF RESILIENCE & RENEWAL featuring newly-commissioned original songs created by some of today’s brightest #musicaltheater writers including #OPalums @AdamGwon, @angelasclafani, and @ryanscottoliver at @59E59 (March 2-20).
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introducing our new corporate mascot, Joe Facebook, the cool cartoon character in sunglasses who posts about election conspiracy theories
Replying to @sarafischer
🚨Whoa. Major news from Zuckerberg: He says Facebook moving forward will "retooling" to make "serving young adults the north star, rather than optimizing for older people." — Says the "shift will take years, not months."
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The great thing about the internet is it makes banal opinions incredibly controversial
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I wish Bertolt Brecht could’ve won a Tony so he could’ve given a speech like, “I love theater because it brings people apart and isolates them in a horrible dread”
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I just finished "Putting It Together" by James Lapine and it is a really exceptional book. And it got me thinking about the favourite phrase that I heard at a workshop in New York a few years back; 'Dramaturgical Referred Pain'
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Leaders in Whitefish, Montana, say Richard Spencer, who once ran his National Policy Institute from his mother’s $3 million summer house there, is an outcast in the community. “He started suffering social consequences for his hatred.” nyti.ms/3DRJies
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#NewEpisode Award-winning composer @AdamGwon chats with Assistant Programming Director Kevin Ferguson to discuss his high school origin story, the importance of mentorship in musical theatre, and the thrills of returning to the live stage. broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/5…
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Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, risked everything to reveal that the company enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it. After nearly a year of avoiding personal questions, Zhang told us her story. trib.al/CPlCCPX