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Author_Janet Neipris
Brown Traveler
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Character
character creation strategies
Character Interaction
Cider House Rules
Dialogue
dialogue construction methods
Director
dramatic writing techniques
dynamic expression
Endings
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Fiction
Forbidden City
Iceman Cometh
Journals
Location
Making of a Play
memoirs and lectures
Nelson Mandela
Non-Fiction
Oven Bird
Performance
play analysis skills
Play Writing
Playwright
Playwrights
playwriting
Playwriting Manual
Post Card
practical guide for aspiring dramatists
Quiet Country Road
Rewrites
Rewriting
rewriting for stage
Script
Scripts
Statue Maker
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
The Stage
Theatre
theatre script development
Thomas Wolf
Weedpatch Camp
Writing
Writing Advice
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367183257
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 2005, To Be A Playwright is an insightful and detailed guide to the craft of playwriting. Part memoir and part how-to guide, this useful book outlines the tools and techniques necessary to the aspiring playwright. Comprised of a collection of memoirs and lectures which blend seamlessly to deliver a practical hands-on guide to playwriting, this book illuminates the elusive challenges confronting creators of dynamic expression and offers a roadmap to craft of playwrighting.
Janet Neipris is an award-winning playwright and Professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her previous publications include To Be a Playwright (Routledge, 2006), Natives (2011), Plays by Janet Neipris (2000), and the musical Jeremy and the Thinking Machine, with Barbara Greenberg (2005). Her plays and letters are in the Theatre collection of Harvard University’s Houghton Library.
