Playwright
noun
A person who writes plays for the theater.
William Shakespeare is one of the most famous playwrights in the world.
Often appears as...
- contemporary playwright
- famous playwright
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Literary
noun
A person who writes plays for the theater.
William Shakespeare is one of the most famous playwrights in the world.
Often appears as...
- contemporary playwright
- famous playwright
Usage tips
Literary
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Pro Tip 1/3Theater Focus
Playwrights specifically write for theatrical performances, not novels or other forms of writing.
She became a successful playwright, with her works performed on Broadway.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Impact
Famous playwrights often shape culture and literature, influencing society through their plays.
The playwright's controversial themes pushed the audience to question their morality.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Significance
Some playwrights are notably historical figures whose works are still studied today.
In history class, we learned about the Greek playwright Sophocles.
Pro Tip 1/3Theater Focus
Playwrights specifically write for theatrical performances, not novels or other forms of writing.
She became a successful playwright, with her works performed on Broadway.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Impact
Famous playwrights often shape culture and literature, influencing society through their plays.
The playwright's controversial themes pushed the audience to question their morality.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Significance
Some playwrights are notably historical figures whose works are still studied today.
In history class, we learned about the Greek playwright Sophocles.
Pro Tip 1/3Theater Focus
Playwrights specifically write for theatrical performances, not novels or other forms of writing.
She became a successful playwright, with her works performed on Broadway.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Impact
Famous playwrights often shape culture and literature, influencing society through their plays.
The playwright's controversial themes pushed the audience to question their morality.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Significance
Some playwrights are notably historical figures whose works are still studied today.
In history class, we learned about the Greek playwright Sophocles.
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Ballroom dance that...
take a break from having to lead all the time. We even came up with a system for switching lead and follow while we were dancing, as a way of taking turns and playing fair. It wasn't until we used that system as part of a performance in a small festival that we got an important tap on the shoulder. Lisa O'Connell, a dramaturge and director of a playwright center,
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Marc Pachter: The art of...
That's the problem here, and she's fighting me for that, and so then I asked her a question -- I didn't know how I was going to get out of it -- I asked her a question about her days as a playwright, and again, characteristically, instead of saying, "Oh yes, I was a playwright, and this is what blah blah blah,"
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Ben Cameron: The true...
while today's playwrights and directors work with youth gangs to find alternate channels to violence and more and more and more. And indeed, I think, rather than being annihilated, the performing arts are poised on the brink of a time when we will be more important than we have ever been.
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My journey from Marine...
and they constantly demonstrate that they're not going to abandon you? And meanwhile, at acting school I was really, for the first time, discovering playwrights and characters and plays that had nothing to do with the military, but were somehow describing my military experience
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Inside a cartoonist's...
Now that you have an idea, or something you think could be good for a cartoon, it's time to shape it. A cartoon is like a staged play. A cartoonist is playwright, director, stage designer, choreographer, and costume designer. A cartoon has characters, a set, dialogue,
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Five Pirate Myths That...
drunken crew members stumbled in right as the pirate actor was sentenced to murder they threw hand grenades through their cutlasses broke the actors leg took the arm of the playwright and killed a member of the audience it almost makes cruise ship dinner theatre sound
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The true power of the...
performers like we're deaf salons work in women's prisons helping women prisoners articulate the pain of incarceration while today's playwrights and directors work with youth gangs do you find alternate channels to violence and more and more and more and indeed I
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Why invest in the...
I so passionate about the creative economy well in all my experience as a copywriter a novelist a playwright a poet a filmmaker a festival director and the teacher I have come to realize that the creative economy is one of the key
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How The Moon Affects Our...
an it's influenced perhaps playwrights and then perhaps more fascinating of all for me the moon has inspired painters some of the greatest works about around the world have been inspired by moonlight and have been trying to
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Tan Le: My immigration...
It is a jigsaw puzzle still being put together. Let me tell you about some of the pieces. Imagine the first a man burning his life's work. He is a poet, a playwright, a man whose whole life
Video examples
Ballroom dance that...
take a break from having to lead all the time. We even came up with a system for switching lead and follow while we were dancing, as a way of taking turns and playing fair. It wasn't until we used that system as part of a performance in a small festival that we got an important tap on the shoulder. Lisa O'Connell, a dramaturge and director of a playwright center,
Video examples
Marc Pachter: The art of...
That's the problem here, and she's fighting me for that, and so then I asked her a question -- I didn't know how I was going to get out of it -- I asked her a question about her days as a playwright, and again, characteristically, instead of saying, "Oh yes, I was a playwright, and this is what blah blah blah,"
Video examples
Ben Cameron: The true...
while today's playwrights and directors work with youth gangs to find alternate channels to violence and more and more and more. And indeed, I think, rather than being annihilated, the performing arts are poised on the brink of a time when we will be more important than we have ever been.
Video examples
My journey from Marine...
and they constantly demonstrate that they're not going to abandon you? And meanwhile, at acting school I was really, for the first time, discovering playwrights and characters and plays that had nothing to do with the military, but were somehow describing my military experience
Video examples
Inside a cartoonist's...
Now that you have an idea, or something you think could be good for a cartoon, it's time to shape it. A cartoon is like a staged play. A cartoonist is playwright, director, stage designer, choreographer, and costume designer. A cartoon has characters, a set, dialogue,
Video examples
Five Pirate Myths That...
drunken crew members stumbled in right as the pirate actor was sentenced to murder they threw hand grenades through their cutlasses broke the actors leg took the arm of the playwright and killed a member of the audience it almost makes cruise ship dinner theatre sound
Video examples
The true power of the...
performers like we're deaf salons work in women's prisons helping women prisoners articulate the pain of incarceration while today's playwrights and directors work with youth gangs do you find alternate channels to violence and more and more and more and indeed I
Video examples
Why invest in the...
I so passionate about the creative economy well in all my experience as a copywriter a novelist a playwright a poet a filmmaker a festival director and the teacher I have come to realize that the creative economy is one of the key
Video examples
How The Moon Affects Our...
an it's influenced perhaps playwrights and then perhaps more fascinating of all for me the moon has inspired painters some of the greatest works about around the world have been inspired by moonlight and have been trying to
Video examples
Tan Le: My immigration...
It is a jigsaw puzzle still being put together. Let me tell you about some of the pieces. Imagine the first a man burning his life's work. He is a poet, a playwright, a man whose whole life
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Jason Robards
American Actor
Any actor worth his salt is looking for truth, the core of truth of the particular situation he is portraying, of that play. The playwright, the actors and the audience, that's what we're all there seeking. When it's working, time is destroyed. Sometimes 'Moon,' a play of four hours, would go by in a snap of the fingers.
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Kelly Masterson
American Playwright
Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?
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Patti LuPone
American Musician
I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and I love, I love our craft very, very, much, and it's a noble craft. We have a responsibility to it, and to the audience, and to the playwright, and to the message. I won't ever care less.
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Suzanne Collins
American Novelist
I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.
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Peter Shaffer
English Playwright
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
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Robert Anderson
American Playwright
The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.
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Harriet Walter
English Actress
Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or to be the domestic difficulty.
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Phylicia Rashad
American Actress
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
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Laura Wade
British Playwright
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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John Guare
American Playwright
It's a lucky life to be a playwright.
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Jason Robards
American Actor
Any actor worth his salt is looking for truth, the core of truth of the particular situation he is portraying, of that play. The playwright, the actors and the audience, that's what we're all there seeking. When it's working, time is destroyed. Sometimes 'Moon,' a play of four hours, would go by in a snap of the fingers.
Quote examples
Kelly Masterson
American Playwright
Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?
Quote examples
Patti LuPone
American Musician
I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and I love, I love our craft very, very, much, and it's a noble craft. We have a responsibility to it, and to the audience, and to the playwright, and to the message. I won't ever care less.
Quote examples
Suzanne Collins
American Novelist
I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.
Quote examples
Peter Shaffer
English Playwright
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
Quote examples
Robert Anderson
American Playwright
The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.
Quote examples
Harriet Walter
English Actress
Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or to be the domestic difficulty.
Quote examples
Phylicia Rashad
American Actress
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
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Laura Wade
British Playwright
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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John Guare
American Playwright
It's a lucky life to be a playwright.
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