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  IBDB Help
To find a list of all shows that opened between two dates, leave the show title out and only type in the start date and the end date.
Similarly, to find all female playwrights born in Ireland, check "playwright" and "female" as well as "Ireland" in the country of birth box.
You can also get a list of all people who were born or died on a certain date by typing in the date in the date of birth or date of death fields.
www.ibdb.com /help.asp   (1425 words)

  
  The Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Department of Theatre and Dance sponsors annually a Black and Latino Playwrights Conference that includes professional guest directors/artists, auditions, 3 to 5 days of open rehearsals, and discussion sessions led by professional guest directors/artists, culminating with reader's theatre performances open to the campus and community.
To lend an ear to new voices and help writers shape their stories and hone their craft in an environment that is safe and allows them to explore and grow and learn fearlessly.
The playwrights should attend the rehearsals and at least one of the performances.
www.txstate.edu /MCGS/black_and_latino_playwrights_conference.html   (650 words)

  
 Theater - Playwrights
For individual playwrights the production and publication histories are given for selected plays; also citations for profiles and interviews, and reviews of plays.
Annotated entries on selected resources including anthologies with plays written by African American female playwrights; general criticism and reference books with substantive reference to African American female playwrights and their plays; and primary and secondary resources for individual playwrights who have published at least one play since 1959.
Critical analysis of playwrights, actors, directors, and designers with major works listed and publications by and about the individual included.
library.gmu.edu /resources/fa/playwrights.html   (517 words)

  
 Manila Pages 6
To be a playwright is to be fully engaged in the ongoing and enduring narrative of the world as we see it.
And like men, women playwrights are continuing to shape and create within the 'final frontier' of the American stage; works that are experimenting with form and structure in ways never imagined before.
One playwright, Dana Goldstein, and one director, Elysa Marden, were given $500 and access to rehearsal space and over the period of a year they worked with a few actors and composer and created Cyclone and the Pig-Faced Lady.
www.womenarts.org /advocacy/ManilaPages6.htm   (3573 words)

  
 Playwright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A playwright is an author of plays for performance in the theater.
The earliest playwrights with surviving works are a group of playwrights from Greece during the 5th century BC, notably Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes.
The term dramatist is sometimes synonymous with playwright, but often is not meant to include playwrights whose focus is comedy.
www.centipedia.com /index.php?title=Playwright&action=edit   (134 words)

  
 The Pear Avenue Theatre
Creating a working environment for playwrights is core to the mission of the Pear Avenue Theatre.
Join the Pear Avenue Theare playwrights e-mail list to be kept informed on new opportunities.
The goal of this series is to do readings as needed to assist the playwright members of this group in developing their work.
www.thepear.org /playwright.htm   (517 words)

  
 Playwright Michael Bettencourt - Theatre Links
Playwrights on the Web (http://www.stageplays.com/writers.htm) is an international database of playwrights and their Web sites, offering directors, producers, and publishers a free and unique way to discover new plays and fresh talent.
The company is dedicated to the playwright and serves as an artistic home, theatre research and development center, and writers' colony for the national theatre just a few steps from Broadway.
The Playwrights' Platform (http://www.tiac.net/users/ghorton/playplat.htm) is a non-profit cooperative of Boston-area playwrights dedicated to mutual assistance in the work of developing new plays.
www.m-bettencourt.com /links.html   (1341 words)

  
 Playwrights Guild :: Readings
Playwright must be a full member in good financial standing of Playwrights Guild of Canada.
Playwrights who will be receiving funding for traveling will also receive an expense report.
Playwrights who have applied for travel funds must also submit an expense report accompained by original receipts or travel tickets.
www.playwrightsguild.com /pgc/c_readings.asp   (663 words)

  
 Playwriting Links on the Internet
The internet is raising interesting questions about the nature of "publication." Although once playwrights or play readers only had one source—books—now the internet is providing a new and different form of publication.
We aim to provide a place where playwrights can make their plays available, and where producers and readers can look to find plays uploaded here by the playwrights.
This is the professional organization for playwrights professional playwrights and theatrical composers and lyricists in the United States.
lecatr.people.wm.edu /playwritinglinks.html   (1321 words)

  
 Playwrights Premiere Theatre :: York County Community Network
Playwrights Premiere Theatre was originally conceived in New York by Mary Wadkins and Robert Ruffin as a result of their collaboration on
Playwrights Premiere Theatre will begin producing a fully professional season of new and under-recognized plays at The Kimball Theatre in Williamsburg, VA in September of 2003.
Playwrights Premiere Theatre currently offers educational tours to universities and schools throughout Virginia as part of The Virginia Poetry Society’s “Poetry in the Schools” program and is also developing a number of regional performances to be offered in the Tidewater, VA area during the spring and summer of 2003.
www.yorkcountyva.org /index.cfm?action=c10&id=1589   (339 words)

  
 Join the Playwrights' Platform Talent List!
Playwrights' Platform exists to provide a home for our playwrights to network between themselves and with other talented people such as yourself.
Our playwrights are always in need of the talents of other theater artists to help give life to their new works.
Playwrights' Platform members have been extensively produced in the Boston area, and many have gone on to great professional success.
www.playwrightsplatform.org /addyourtalent.html   (323 words)

  
 Y - plays
Below is listed every Playwright on the doollee database whose surname begins with the letter Y.
Click on a Playwright's name for details of all the plays they have written that we currently list, including cast details and synopsis.
We only list Playwrights who have written or been produced in English since 1956.
www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsY/3PlaywrightsYdata.htm   (101 words)

  
 In Provincetown, 25 playwrights take their turn in 'Line' - The Boston Globe
Each of the 25 three-minute scenes was written by a different prominent playwright.
When she called the National for more information, she found out that "The Chain Play" was in the process of being written on Sept. 11, 2001.
For Provincetown's "Direct Line Play," Sturner made a wish list of playwrights and got most of them -- and for free.
www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/06/20/in_provincetown_25_playwrights_take_their_turn_in_line   (618 words)

  
 Famous_Playwrights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The theatres were all clamoring for new plays, much as television series are in need of at least 13 episodes per drama or situation comedy.
As you can see from the list of Elizabethan playwrights and their plays, about twenty-two authors would supply a huge number of plays over a fifty-year period.
As for famous playwrights, Christopher Marlowe was admired by all of his contemporaries.
webpages.acs.ttu.edu /wgelber/Famous_playwrights.html   (146 words)

  
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www.eff.org /Net_culture/Net_info/Resources/mailinglists.list   (16308 words)

  
 redlightplaywrights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
There are a few playwrights who are also represented by other agents and who may be approved through that agent, so check the "Approved" lists before you give up.
Sam Shepard) are on the "Red Light" list for their Sam French properties (like "Tooth of Crime") but those same playwrights may be on the "Approved" list for other properties (like "Lie of the Mind," which is held by Dramatists or "Fool for Love" which is held by Berman).
It is a contractual arrangement between the author and the publisher, and reflects the playwright's preferences as to how their work is viewed.
www.cord.edu /faculty/winterst/actf/redlightplaywrights.htm   (210 words)

  
 Alexander Street Press | Asian American Drama
Today, Asian American playwrights continue to challenge established theatrical conventions by calling attention to issues and experiences that might otherwise be ignored or marginalized.
The initial list of playwrights was compiled using Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, edited by Miles Xian Liu (Greenwood Press, 2002).
The list of writers then was expanded through conversations with numerous scholars and advisors and with the living playwrights themselves.
www.alexanderstreet.com /products/aadr.htm   (634 words)

  
 Websites of the Members of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights as well as Organizations and Sites of Interest to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Visit the Playwrights Expo 2003 page for links to theatre companies and playwrights groups that participated in the event.
The Alliance of LA Playwrights acknowledges the support of the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, the nation's largest and most comprehensive continuing education writing program in the United States where adult learners study with their choice of more than 250 professional screenwriters, fiction writers, playwrights, poets, nonfiction writers and writers of children's literature.
is a site where playwrights can list their plays available for production--and of course, a great place to hunt for them.
www.laplaywrights.org /memberlinks.html   (393 words)

  
 Drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Playwrights An alphabetical list of playwrights with brief biographical information followed by links to additional information about their plays.
Yahoo's list of Playwrights Links to additional information about each playwright's plays.
Theatre History Here you will find an extensive list of links and information about all aspects of theatre history.
www.vonl.com /humble9/drama1.htm   (1203 words)

  
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Many of the states whose nicknames are in today's Crypto List will be readily recognized; others may be more obscure to solvers who don't live in or near them.
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 MadStage Playwrights and Scripts
Created to foster the development of new works, Wisconsin Wrights features an opportunity for three playwrights to receive workshops and readings of their work as part of the University Theatre Summer 2007 season.
is a non-profit association of theater artists dedicated to the development of playwrights and their work.
StoryFoundry.com - The StoryFoundry is a place for playwrights to list their works and start a community.
www.madstage.com /html/playwrights.html   (703 words)

  
 List of novelists by nationality - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
See also: Lists of authors, List of poets, List of playwrights, List of short story authors
Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark (1985), on which the film Schindler's List was based, Confederates (1979)
Václav Havel, (born 1936, President of Czech Republic (1993–2003) and famous playwright)
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_novelists_by_nationality   (1390 words)

  
 List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: List of German language playwrights; List of German language authors; List of Austrian writers
See also: List of Canadian playwrights; List of Canadian screenwriters; List of Canadian writers; List of Quebec writers; List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec; List of Canadian plays
See also: List of playwrights from the United States; List of African-American writers; List of Jewish American playwrights
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_playwrights_by_nationality_and_date_of_birth   (223 words)

  
 Indo-American Arts Council, Inc.
In keeping with the Lark's mission to reach out to unheard voices, submissions for this year's festival were sought especially from cultures whose perspectives are not generally reflected in mainstream theater, specifically the South Asian and Middle Eastern Diasporas.
The Lark is one of a few theaters in NY to have an open submission policy and guarantees that all plays submitted will be read and considered.
Plays are selected for Playwrights' Week through a rigorous reading and evaluation process involving dozens of Lark artists, staff, and volunteers.
www.iaac.us /playwrights_press.htm   (682 words)

  
 About Quotes on Craft
Most of these quoted folks are playwrights, but about 25% are ringers: writers, directors, producers, and others primarily or exclusively associated with the film and television industry; visual artists [sculptors and print-makers] and designers; novelists and poets.
The full list by name within The Seminars is in Playwrights Quoted in The Seminars; the full list in The Archive is in Playwrights Quoted in The Archive.
Interviews with 15 US playwrights on their creative process, critics, and the state of the theatre, including Edward Albee, Jon Robin Baitz, Tony Kushner, Nicky Silver, Paula Vogel, Wendy Wasserstein, Mac Wellman, and George C. Wolfe.
www.vcu.edu /artweb/playwriting/quotes.html   (406 words)

  
 101 Greatest Screenplays - Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO, WGAE, WGA East, Movie Scripts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In the summer of 2005, ballots were sent out asking WGAE and WGAw members to list up to ten of their favorite produced screenplays.
The resulting list is like a travelogue of the greatest films of the century, with all decades from the 1930s on represented among the rankings.
The guilds' list features playwrights, novelists, film critics, writer-directors, writer-actors, three fl-listed writers, and four sets of brothers.
www.wgaeast.org /greatest_screenplays   (427 words)

  
 International Centre for Women Playwrights. Speaking across nations.
ICWP members are winning awards, having plays produced and their work published every week of the year.
Download and print a promotional ICWP flyer to leave in your local theatre, library, bookshop, playwrights' gatherings and workshops.
meets regularly to administer the funds and look for new ways to support the members and women playwrights wherever they may be.
www.netspace.org /~icwp/index.html   (293 words)

  
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If you know the exact name of the list you are looking for but could not find it on this page, try the unlisted archive form instead.
lists.netspace.org /archives   (108 words)

  
 Plays for Young Audiences :: Featured Playwrights
Seattle Children's Theatre and The Children's Theatre Company have commissioned plays by award-winning national and international playwrights.
See below for information on our featured playwrights.
Jump to last names that start with the letter...
www.playsforyoungaudiences.org /playwrights   (71 words)

  
 The Internet Book Database of Fiction :: Index
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The grandmaster of the English language, and one of the greatest playwrights of all time.
The unofficial discussion board for "The Poldarks of Nampara".
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