To Be a Playwright
Chair of the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Dramatic Writing Program and mentor to such theatre figures as Neil LaBute, Kenneth Lonergan, Doug Wright, and George Wolfe, Janet Neipris distills a career's worth of wisdom, advice, and encouragement in these collected lectures and essays for every playwriting student and practicing playwright. With her gift for succinct and practical instruction, she lays out the questions (and answers) that face every dramatic writer. Chapters...
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Chair of the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Dramatic Writing Program and mentor to such theatre figures as Neil LaBute, Kenneth Lonergan, Doug Wright, and George Wolfe, Janet Neipris distills a career's worth of wisdom, advice, and encouragement in these collected lectures and essays for every playwriting student and practicing playwright. With her gift for succinct and practical instruction, she lays out the questions (and answers) that face every dramatic writer. Chapters like "Fifty Questions to Ask About Your Play" illuminate the concrete work of writing dialogue, plot, scene, and act. Through it all, Neipris never forgets the joy of writing. This is an essential book that will coach and inspire anyone writing a play or a script.
1The twelve habits of successful playwrights12A room of your own133Fifty questions to ask when writing a play234Character335Dialogue : the ways our characters speak to us436Location : passports to playwrighting557Endings658Rewriting919Journals11310The making of a play : "a small delegation" from Beijing to home11911Adapting from fact and fiction15112The do's and don'ts of playwrighting : what I know to be true17113Critics18114The education of a playwright18515What they told me : advice on writing and other vices19316To be a playwright21117Notes223
