In 2006 four playwrights wrote a serial play, "The Necklace", based on themes and structures that they would develop over a year's time. Ellen Maddow, in an interview in "The Brooklyn Rail", says of the experience: "I’ve worked in collaborative theatre all my life but to work collaboratively with other playwrights is something unusual. It’s a kind of tug and pull of four different peoples minds and ways of thinking. And the ways you are pushed in a certain direction by someone else’s aesthetic is very interesting."