HowlRound Theatre Commons is a non-profit service organization based out of Emerson College's Office of the Arts.
[2][3] HowlRound's projects include an online Journal,[4] a livestreaming TV channel, and the World Theatre Map.
[8][9] HowlRound first started as an online journal launched in 2011, created by P. Carl, David Dower, Jamie Gahlon, and Vijay Mathew[10] as part of the American Voices New Play Institute (AVNPI).
[11][12] The concept for HowlRound evolved out of work and research performed in 2005 and 2006 and the writings of David Dower's "The Gates of Opportunity" and Todd London and Ben Pesner's Outrageous Fortune, both of which examined the lack of institutional support and resources in the non-profit theatre community.
In December 2011 it was decided that all of the documentation and dissemination work of the AVNPI would move to Emerson College in Boston.