In Praise of Being a Blind Reader
By Karla Jennings. Anonymous submissions put sole focus on the script. They are especially important in writing competitions, since that's how outliers usually get a foot in the door. When you read an anonymous script, you can't have a preconceived bias about the playwright's region, age, gender, sexual preference, race, or ethnicity. You might deduce it from the script, but the point is, you deduce it from the scrip…