About Us


We tell the stories of people who tell stories.

The Hat covers theater in New York—specifically, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway.

Our monthly issues include features, essays, and interviews by journalists and theater artists exploring craft, process, and innovation onstage.

The Hat is published on the first Monday of the month, from October through June.

(And yes, our name is a Sondheim reference!)

Editors


Colin Macdonald

Colin Macdonald has a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center, where his work focused on Shakespeare and early modern theater. He is a voting member of the Drama Desk, and reviews Off-Broadway theater for Off-Off-Online. He was the managing editor of Renaissance Quarterly for many years, and edits journals and books for a variety of university presses. 

Kara Cutruzzula

As a writer and editor whose work spans theater, books, and journalism, Kara Cutruzzula’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, and The Daily Beast & Newsweek, where she was the culture editor. She is the author of Do It For Yourself, a motivational journal series for artists and writers. Kara is a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Advanced Songwriting and Bookwriting Workshops, Maestra, and the Dramatists Guild. She and composer Kristoffer Bjarke are currently developing Marathon, a new musical about life and running. @karacut / karacutruzzula.com

Our Contributors

  • Alexandra Jhamb Burns is a freelance arts and culture writer and audio producer whose writing has appeared in Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, the Brooklyn Rail, and Byline. Outside of her writing, she is an after school teacher in Brooklyn and a podcast obsessive.

  • Douglas Corzine is a freelance arts journalist and critic whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, Town & Country, Interview, American Theatre, Jacobin, TDF Stages, and the Brooklyn Rail. Outside of his writing work, he is the 2025–26 TWDP Artistic Fellow at Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City.

  • John DeVore is a writer and editor who lives in Brooklyn. He’s written for Rolling Stone, Esquire, The AV Club, and others. His debut memoir, Theatre Kids, came out last year. 

  • Kate Douglas is a writer/performer and composer. Recent work includes The Apiary (New York Times Critic’s Pick, Outer Critics Circle Awards nomination), My Dog Is Dead (Ancram Center for the Arts), and Tulipa (New York Stage & Film). She is the 2024 recipient of a Jonathan Larson Grant for music and lyrics and the Next Forever Commission. Member of the Joe’s Pub Working Group; alum of the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, Colt Coeur, and The Civilian R&D Group.

  • Danielle Frimer's plays include P. Pan et al., Monarchs, Mariana, and the award-winning a marriage is a story we tell and keep telling. Her work has been developed and performed at theaters nationwide and published in Smith & Kraus's Best Short Plays and The Cincinnati Review. Also an Emmy-nominated conversation designer, Danielle holds degrees from Yale and American Conservatory Theater and lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her wife and their rescue dog, Dory. daniellefrimer.com

  • Jen Gushue is a freelance theater writer with bylines in Town & Country, TDF Stages, New York Theatre Guide, American Theatre, and more. They run a blog called Calling Qs that covers the New York queer theater scene. They are also a Supervising Editor at Wirecutter.

  • Adam Gwon’s musical All the World’s a Stage was named last season’s Best Musical by the Off-Broadway Alliance Awards. His other shows include Scotland, PA and Ordinary Days, both of which premiered Off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company. IG: @gwonster / adamgwon.com

  • Durra Leung 柯杜華 is a Guangzhou-born, NYC-based multilingual writer and composer whose genre-bending work finds humor and heart in life’s absurdity. Most recent productions include The People vs. American Cheese (Thompson Street Opera Company, AOP-NYU Opera Lab), Hey Hey (Episodic Theatre Project), and the revised Thoroughly Modern Millie (Toho Company). His current project Durra Leung’s Lullabies for Motherf*ckers Trilogy follows three queer Chinese artists navigating love, identity, and self-worth in America across different decades.

  • Tyrone L. Robinson is an ASCAP Frederick Loewe Award–winning composer, writer, Broadway actor, and director of stage and film. His work has been heard at the Public Theater and David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. His first film, Un{H}armed, was an official selection of eleven film festivals nationwide including the New York Shorts, Big Muddy, and Harlem International Film Festivals. Tyrone’s Broadway credits include Disney’s Frozen, Swept Away, and Pirates! The Penzance Musical. IG: @TyroneLRobinson

  • Joey Sims has written for The New York Times, Vulture, American Theatre, Into, TheaterMania, Time Out, TDF Stages, Queerty, IGN, and many more. Joey is a senior critic at Theatrely and an alumnus of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Critics Institute. He runs a theater Substack called Transitions.

  • Tim Teeman is the theater critic of The Daily Beast. A multi-award-winning writer and editor, Tim previously worked at The Times of London for many years, including as the paper's Arts and Entertainment Editor and US Correspondent. He has also written for publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, and Town & Country, and is the author of the book, In Bed With Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood, and the Private World of an American Master. IG: @teemantim / timteeman.com

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