Alumni news, in brief:

Kate Snodgrass will be on the "Playwrights Creating Opportunities" panel at next month's Dramatists Guild National Conference in Chicago...

Ronan Noone's The Second Girl will be one of the Vineyard Playhouse's Monday Night Specials (the theatre's summer reading series of new plays) on Aug. 5...

Argos Productions will ring in 2014 with a production of Walt McGough's The Haberdasher! A Tale of Derring-Do!...

Jonathon Myers' current interactive project, featured on Polygon...

We blog: John Kuntz on his "80s ladies"; things Colleen Hughes learned from the 1991 classic My Girl; Walt McGough on the immediacy at the heart of playwriting...