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For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.
Lynn Nottage / Playwright
Playwriting
Sharing
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I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.
Damaris Phillips /
Playwriting
Brief
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I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.
Gia Coppola / Film Director
Creative Writing
Playwriting
Screenplays
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Edward Albee / Playwright
Hanging Out
Playwriting
Stage
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Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
Jez Butterworth / Playwright
Looking Back
Playwriting
Pubs
Should Have
Sitting
Time Looking Back Looking
Perfecting
Spent
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I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.
Amanda Peet / Actress
Location
Playwriting
Rooted
Standing
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Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.
Arthur Miller / Playwright
Art
Expecting
Playwriting
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T. S. Eliot / Playwright
Blood
Playwriting
Producers
Theatre
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
Zoe Kazan / Film Actress
Movie Love
Painful
Playwriting
Theater
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So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.
Nathan Englander / Short Story Writer
Comparison
Playwriting
Translation
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There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.
Tony Kushner / Playwright
Fundamentals
Irresponsibility
Kind
Playwriting
Fundamental
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
Zoe Kazan / Film Actress
Difficult
Grew
Grew Up
Play
Playwriting
Screenwriting
Compared
Incredibly
Plays
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I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.
Peter Gould / Television Writer
Playwriting
Strictly
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I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Teacher
Actors
Lucky
Playwriting
Good Enough Me
Good Teacher Me
Better Actor
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
Wallace Shawn / Actor
Ideas
Play
Playwriting
Writing
Literally
Studying
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My husband, Steve Hamilton - an actor/producer and co-Director of the Southampton Playwriting Conference - and I had been working in the theatre in New York for many years.
Emma Walton Hamilton / Actress
New York
Hamilton
Husband
Playwriting
Theatre
Years
Had
Been
Conference
Working
Steve
York
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Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.
Billy Collins / Poet
Dance
Essays
Love Life
Painter
Playwriting
Satirical
Life Love Love Life
Lincoln
Scenario
Wobbly
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I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas.
Edward Zwick / Filmmaker
Canvas
Playwriting
Television
Scale
Closer
Guess
Internal
Voices
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Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.
John Patrick Shanley / Playwright
Consensus
Individualism
Playwriting
Safety
Precisely
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Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.
Peter Shaffer / Playwright
Playwriting
Rust
Sole
Pump
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I was dating girls who were actresses, and that was fun, so I took a playwriting class. But that was short-lived. That was one year. Around that time, I was seeing movies that were making me think in terms of images.
Richard Linklater / Film Director
Dating
Playwriting
Short Lived
Time Movies Me
Images
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
Sam Shepard / Playwright
Space
Balance
Form
Light
Might
Play
Playwriting
Theoretical
Timing
Writing
Music Always Your
Space Music Always
Chair
Space Music Me
Concerns
Essay
Lights
Making
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I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.
Tom Stoppard / Playwright
Playwriting
Exact
Razor
Strong Sense
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I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.
Mike Birbiglia / Comedian
Dollars
Incomplete
Playwriting
Screenwriting
Directed
Thousands
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To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'
Stephen Karam /
Playwriting
Profession
Work Me See
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I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my sophomore year, I started getting back into making movies. My senior year, I took playwriting classes, and I feel like that's where I learned to be a writer.
John Hamburg /
Playwriting
Requirements
Senior
Senior Year
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Classes
Fewest
Making Movies
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I'd applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that, when it came to film, the door was very slightly ajar. If I have any virtues, it's that I'm good at walking through doors that are slightly ajar.
Greta Gerwig / Actress
Graduate School
Playwriting
Rejected
Theatre
Applied
Closed
Door
Graduate
Virtues
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
Orson Scott Card / Novelist
Believe
Class
Creative Writing
Playwriting
Writing
Accidentally
Classes
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My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
Valorie Curry / Film Actress
Family
Age
Childhood
Class
College
College Degree
Exposed
Mother
Playwriting
Theatre
Young
Young Age
Family Mother Childhood
Lot
Meant
Classes
Degree
Dragged
Working
Her
Magical
She
Throughout
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In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion that a woman could actually forge a career in the theatre. Up until then, the possibility seemed remote and inaccessible, as I had very few role models who directly touched my life.
Lynn Nottage / Playwright
Inaccessible
Models
Notion
Playwriting
Possibility
Role Models
Senior
Senior Year
Touched
Life Teacher Me
Directly
Forge
Introduce
Paula
Remote
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When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data entry for a yearbook company. In my mid-20s I went back to grad school at NYU, and I specialized in playwriting.
Suzanne Collins / Writer
Yearbook
Data
Entry
Grad
Grad School
Npr
Nyu
Playwriting
Telecommunications
Dj
Reporter
First Job
Specialized
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My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. I never really wanted to do anything else.
Valorie Curry / Film Actress
College Degree
Exposed
Playwriting
Young Age
Family Age Mother
Anything Else
Classes
Dragged
Magical
Youngest
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When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had to take this acting class as a theater arts major. I had to do this scene in a one-act comedy. I just said this line, and then... this laugh happened. I thought, 'Whoa. This is a really good feeling. What have I been missing?'
Carol Burnett / Actress
Good Feeling
Missing
Playwriting
Ucla
Acting Class
Whoa
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