general press

"New play development is a tricky business -- as costly, inefficient and vital as research and development labs are to corporations. The bottom line eats away at risk-taking in the cautious regional theaters, dwindling mid-sized houses and struggling smaller groups... No one has thought longer or worked harder on the development process than David Dower, artistic director of The Z Space Studio."
-- Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle

"...the guiding light of progressive theater and music in the Bay Area."
-- San Francisco Magazine

"Word for Word, the Bay Area company that turns short fiction into fantastic theater."
--Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune

"Z's work - and founder/artistic director Dower's vision - have generated a new and noteworthy spirit of cooperation in the Bay Area theatre community."
-- Jean Schiffman, American Theatre magazine

"For the past ten years, Word for Word has been bringing literary short stories and chapters of novels so glowingly to life that the writers themselves . . . are enraptured."
-- Callboard magazine

"How does one grow bored with constant theatrical innovation?"
-- Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune