How I did it : establishing a playwriting career / edited by Lawrence Harbison ; foreword by Theresa Rebeck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harbison, Lawrence, editor.

Rebeck, Theresa, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Playwriting.

Authors and theater.

Drama--Technique.

Drama.

Physical Description:

x, 211 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, WI : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2015.

Summary:

For this book, Lawrence Harbison has interviewed thirty successful playwrights. All have developed relationships with theaters that regularly produce their plays, have had at least one major New York production, published one or more plays with a licensor such as Dramatists Play Service or Samuel French, received a commissions, and secured an agent. Harbison asks each of them the same question: How did you do it? Featuring interviews with Bruce Norris, Lynn Nottage, JT Rogers, Stephen Belber, Adam Bock, John Cariani, Rinne Groff, Sheila Callaghan, Cori Thomas, Rajiv Joseph, Greg Kotis, Gina Gionfriddo, Itamar Moses, Eric Coble, Jessica Dickey, Lloyd Suh, Sharr White, Kirsten Greenidge, David Auburn, and Bekah Brunstetter, and an introduction by Theresa Rebeck, How I Did It: Establishing a Playwriting Career will be of great interest to playwrights and playwriting students daunted by the extremely difficult task of getting their work produced. Book jacket.

Contents:

David Auburn 1

Stephen Belber 7

Adam Bock 13

Bekah Brunstelter 19

Sheila Callaghan 29

John Cariani 35

Eric Coble 43

Jessica Dickey 49

Kate Fodor 53

Gina Gionfriddo 59

Daniel Goldfarb 69

Kirsten Greenidge 77

Rinne Groff 83

Lauren Gunderson 93

Michael Hollinger 101

Rajiv Joseph 111

Greg Kotis 115

Neil La Bute 121

Deborah Zoe Laufer 125

Wendy MacLeod 133

Itamar Moses 139

Bruce Norris 145

Lynn Nottage 151

Aaron Posner 159

Adam Rapp 167

J.T. Rogers 175

Lloyd Suh 183

Cori Thomas 189

Sharr White 197

Anna Ziegler 205.

ISBN:

9781480369634

1480369632

OCLC:

886486216