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unusual facts about playwrights


Playwrights' Platform

Theresa Rebeck is a former member of Playwrights' Platform, as is Matt Witten.


Alan Dossor

Dossor has directed theatre and television plays by contemporary playwrights like Chris Bond, Stephen Lowe, John McGrath, Adrian Mitchell and Willy Russell, Mike Stott, C.P.Taylor and Charles Wood; as well as classic plays by Bertolt Brecht and Shakespeare.

Argentine Open Theatre

Playwright Osvaldo Dragún seized the opportunity to organize a new theatre movement, calling on fellow playwrights Roberto Cossa and Carlos Gorostiza, as well as renowned theatre actors Luis Brandoni, Jorge Rivera López and Pepe Soriano.

Association of Australian Artistes

Playwrights who were premiered in London included Steve J. Spears.

Brander Matthews

Long before they were fashionable, he championed playwrights who were regarded as too bold for American tastes, such as Hermann Sudermann, Arthur Pinero, and preeminently Henrik Ibsen, about whom he wrote frequently and eloquently.

Dance Stance

The song references a range of Irish playwrights and writers including Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan, Sean O’Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Edna O’Brien and Laurence Sterne.

Danny Bernardi

Bernardi has cited his main influences on his writing as being the Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, playwrights such as Stephen Berkoff and Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) as well as such diverse sources such as The Clash, Billy Childish, Benjamin Zephaniah.

David Mark Cohen

Cohen's success as a teacher of playwrights and promoter of new plays is indicated by the large number of scripts by his students that have been accepted for development or performance by theatres and workshops throughout the United States, including John Walch, Clay Nichols, Emily Cicchini, P. Seth Bauer, Catherine Rogers, Joseph Skibell, Hank Schwemmer, C. Denby Swanson, Dan Dietz, and Lisa D'Amour.

David William

During his tenure at Stratford, the Festival produced works by Canadian playwrights Elliott Hayes, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, and John Murrell.

Dunduzu Chisiza

One, Du Chisiza Jnr, was born subsequent to his death and became one of Malawi's most prominent playwrights.

Ed Bullins

He is one of the best known playwrights to come from the Black Arts Movement.

Eleanor Flexner

Plays evaluated in American Playwrights are by dramatists Sidney Howard, S.N. Behrman, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O’Neill, by comedy writer George S. Kaufman (variously collaborating with Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Herman Mankiewicz, Morrie Ryskind, Howard Dietz, Katherine Dayton, and others), and by comedy writers George Kelly, Rachel Crothers, Philip Barry, and Robert E. Sherwood.

Epigram Books

They continuously publish fiction and poetry by Singapore-based writers, poets and playwrights like Jean Tay, Haresh Sharma and Kevin Keane.

French theatre of the late 18th century

For example, in December 1793, a member of the Committee for Public Safety, Bertrand Barère, demanded that playwrights create work about the French capture of Toulon.

George Braziller

I remember you’d go to the corner café, and there were artists like Max Ernst, Giacometti, Calder, and then the writers, poets, playwrights, dramatists like Camus, Michaux, Ionesco, Dürrenmatt....

George Earl Ortman

In 1954, he and actress Julie Bovasso founded the Tempo Playhouse to perform contemporary European playwrights, including the first American showings of Jean Genet, Eugène Ionesco, and Michel de Ghelderode.

Glynne Wickham

He also helped to set up a playwriting fellowship in the department, attracting young playwrights like John Arden, and premiered Harold Pinter's first play, The Room in 1957.

Gunnar Reiss-Andersen

Reiss-Andersen was awarded the Norwegian state’s artist salary in 1945; this is a substantial recognition which had previously been awarded to well-recognized writers, poets, playwrights and composers including Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Henrik Ibsen, Edvard Grieg, Olav Duun and Johan Falkberget.

Hart House Theatre

The Art Deco theatre has been a starting ground for many well-known actors, directors, playwrights, and designers including: Raymond Massey, Dora Mavor Moore, Lloyd Bochner, Lawren Harris, Arthur Lismer, Wayne and Shuster, and Merrill Denison.

Jeff Haslam

He has worked at most of Edmonton's theatres, including the Citadel Theatre (Burn This, Hello Dolly and Little Shop of Horrors - for which he won his third Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award), Theatre Network (Habitat), Shadow Theatre (Almost Maine), Edmonton Opera (South Pacific and HMS Pinafore) as well as with playwrights Marty Chan, Conni Massing, Lyle Victor Albert, Raymond Storey, Doug Curtis, Jocelyn Ahlf, Cathleen Rootsaert and Belinda Cornish.

Jewtopia

On October 21, 2004, the off-Broadway production, directed by John Tillinger and again starring the playwrights, opened at Manhattan's Westside Theatre after previews beginning on September 28, 2004.

Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan

Bookers later acquired the copyrights of other well-known authors, including novelists Agatha Christie, Dennis Wheatley, Georgette Heyer and the playwrights Robert Bolt and Harold Pinter.

Kia Corthron

She was one of nine American playwrights selected by Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater for a special world travel/play commissioning grant.

Kostas Voutsas

He soon became one of the best and most popular comic actors of his generation and created personal groups, starring in many Greek comedies by top playwrights and classics like Aristophanes' The Wasps (as Philokleon), Molière's Le bourgeois gentilhomme (title role), etc.

Latino Theater Company

"Cultural Roundtable" participants include Latino Theater Company, Robey Theatre Company, Cedar Grove OnStage, Playwrights' Arena, Culture Clash, American Indian Dance Theatre and the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television.

Lee Jamieson

As a theatre writer, he has written books about the playwrights Antonin Artaud and Harold Pinter and is the journalist responsible for the Shakespeare pages of About.com.

Leonard Pronko

He has translated the plays of Alfonso Sastre, and published monographs on a number of French playwrights.

Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama

Its repertoire consists of plays by famous playwrights such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bulgakov and others.

Literature in early modern Scotland

Drama was pursued by Scottish playwrights in London such as Catherine Trotter, David Crawford's and Newburgh Hamilton who wrote the libretto for Handel’s Samson (1743).

Little Theatre of Alexandria

It has played an important role in launching the careers of playwrights such as Sandra Fenichel Asher, Rich Orloff, and Jacob M. Appel.

Miguel Pecci Saavedra

He is counted amongst a creative and enthusiastic group of young actors and playwrights including Luis Ruffinelli, Francisco Martín Barrios, Facundo Recalde, Benigno Villa and Arturo Alsina who were of major importance to the development of Paraguayan theatre in the 1920s.

New Plays from Europe

The NEW PLAYS FROM EUROPE 2012 team of artistic directors consists of: Manfred Beilharz, artistic director of Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, the author Tankred Dorst, one of the most internationally renowned and most frequently staged German playwrights (distinguished with awards such as the Büchner Prize and the Schiller Memorial Prize), his co-author Ursula Ehler and the dramaturg Maya Schöffel, who has served as festival organizational director since 2007.

Playwright

Perhaps the most Aristotelian of contemporary playwrights is David Mamet.

On Broadway, this has happened in the past year with Martin McDonagh's "Behanding in Spokane" and Mamet's "Race" although these shows were packaged with stars (Christopher Walken in the former) and with playwrights who are well established in the profession.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

In accordance with its focus on nurturing the work of individual writers, Rattlestick has developed on-going relationships with several previously produced playwrights, including Lucy Thurber, Stephen Belber, Adam Rapp, Craig Wright, Craig Lucas, and Jesse Eisenberg.

Roberto Cossa

Playwright Osvaldo Dragún seized the opportunity to organize an Teatro Abierto ("Open Theatre") movement, calling on Cossa and fellow playwrights Luis Brandoni, Jorge Rivera López and Pepe Soriano, as well as receiving support from prominent intellectuals such as Nobel laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and writer Ernesto Sábato.

South Coast Repertory

Other playwrights who had multiple premieres at SCR also became familiar names in theatres across America: Amy Freed, Craig Lucas, Howard Korder, Keith Reddin, Octavio Solis, and Richard Greenberg, who has had nine commissioned world premieres at SCR.

Susan Hilferty

Hilferty has collaborated often with playwright Athol Fugard and has designed for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, and the Roundabout.

Theatre 503

Their programme combines new plays by new playwrights with "Establishing the Future by Igniting the Past" through their Second Look programme of work un-revived since the 1980s/'90s and Playwright Presents, in which well known playwrights such as Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill and Timberlake Wertenbaker.

Theatre of War

War of the Theatres, a rivalry between playwrights Ben Johnson, John Marston, and Thomas Dekker from 1599–1602

Thomas Middleton

Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period.

Towards a Sociology of the Novel

This disappearance of the subject can also be seen in the theater of absence exemplified by playwrights like Beckett and Adamov, as well as in non-representational art.

Victory Gardens Theater

In 1997, resident playwrights Steve Carter and James Sherman were joined by Claudia Allen, Dean Corrin, Lonnie Carter, Gloria Bond Clunie, John Logan, Nicholas Patricca, Douglas Post, Charles Smith, Jeffrey Sweet and Kristine Thatcher as the founding members of the company’s Playwrights Ensemble.

Warren Casey

Producers Ken Waissman and Maxine Fox saw the show and suggested to the playwrights that it might work better as a musical, and told them if the creative partners were willing to rework it and they liked the end result, they would produce it off-Broadway.

William Frankfather

Frankfather received six DramaLogue awards for acting and producing and, as artistic director of Theatre 40, produced works by playwrights such as Medoff and Sam Shepard.

William M. Packard

His plays include "The Killer Thing," directed by Otto Preminger, "Sandra and the Janitor," produced at the HB Playwrights Foundation, "The Funeral," "The Marriage," and "War Play," produced and directed by Gene Frankel.

Wilmington Drama League

The talents and energies of thousands of volunteers - actors, directors, set designers and builders, lighting and sound engineers, as well as costume, makeup, and prop technicians - have transformed our stage into the compelling fantasy worlds created by playwrights ranging from Edward Albee, Beckett and Chekhov to David Mamet and Arthur Miller, Simon and Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and Williams.

World Interplay

Interplay Europe is held in alternate years to World Interplay, and involves young playwrights from across Europe.


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