A guide for writers
at all phases of their careers - from those who have
never written for the stage to those who want to grow
beyond their current productions - The Playwright's
Handbook helps you craft a script into a successful
theatatrical work and get it produced. Written by Frank
Pike, an award-winning playwright, and Thomas G. Dunn,
founder of the prestigious Minneapolis Playwright Center,
this guide contains the expertise of professions actively
working in the theatre. Their positive, up-to-date advice
is reality based, effective, and tells you up front
how to maake money with your talent. This book includes:
- A basic course in writing the
kind of plays that can be successfully produced
- How to get your play read by
the right people and performed before a live audience
- How to start a workship to
produce your own play
- Lists of theatres not only
on, off and off-off-Broadway but all over America
- And all the information a playwright
needs to make a living at his or her trade, including
information about royalties, advances, tax breaks, scholarships,
grants, contests, copyright laws, the Dramatists Guide,
and the pluses and minuses of agents.
