In March 2020, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale (SIU) went into lockdown. With the annual Big Muddy New Play Festival about to kick off—two productions entering tech and four full-length staged readings rehearsing—SIU's M.F.A. Playwriting Program had been left in the lurch. COVID-19 and the scramble to move courses online and to graduate our M.F.A.'s canceled the entire festival. A year later, still online, the SIU M.F.A. Playwriting new play festival did not meet this same fate. Based on twelve months of experimentation, the program was able to develop a streaming festival. Our 2021 new play festival on YouTube brought together more than forty artists across eight time zones to collaborate with our five graduate student playwrights. The international ensemble, represented in an interactive map (Fig. 1), showed how open-access software and streaming platforms could help students at our rural university transcend our limited geography.

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2020 年 3 月，位于卡本代尔的南伊利诺伊大学 (SIU) 进入封锁状态。随着一年一度的 Big Muddy New Play Festival 即将拉开帷幕——两部作品进入科技领域，四部完整的舞台阅读排练——SIU 的 MFA 剧本创作计划陷入困境。COVID-19 以及将课程转移到网上并让我们的 MFA 毕业的争夺取消了整个艺术节。一年后，依旧在线的SIU MFA编剧新剧节并没有遇到同样的命运。基于十二个月的实验，该程序能够开发一个流媒体音乐节。我们在 YouTube 上举办的 2021 年新戏剧节汇集了来自八个时区的 40 多位艺术家，与我们的五位研究生剧作家合作。国际合奏，以交互式地图表示（图 1），