DRAMATISTS GUILD . The Dramatists Guild is the official guild of Broadway’s playwrights. Prior to its inception, playwrights had no security or safeguards written into their contracts. Now the Dramatists Guild acts in a union capacity, representing professional playwrights.
Like many of its fellow guilds and unions, the Dramatists Guild had a difficult birth. The fight for playwrights’ rights began in 1878 when Steele MacKay and Clay M. Greene started the American...