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Thank you to the artists, teachers, and students I have worked with who showed me what it means to make collaborative art and to those who shared stories, ideas, and time. I am especially indebted to the dramaturgs I met through the Kennedy Center New Play Dramaturgy Intensive and the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. These artists helped me find the language for these ideas. Particular thanks to Mark Bly, Anne Morgan, Tyler Smith, Talya Kingston, Maren Robinson, Dan Burson, Alexis Jade Links, Rachel Hutt, Margot Manburg, and Jessie Baxter. Thank you to my students for helping me work through ways of talking about this approach and to Stacey Walker at Taylor & Francis who believed that approach could make a book. Finally, thank you to my family and friends for the encouragement and support, especially Elisabeth Lang who read every draft. Last but not least, thank you Don and Jackson, for all of it.