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NOW RElEASED: Playwriting with Purpose, 2nd Edition
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Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights, Second Edition provides a revised and greatly expanded holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and professor.
This book incorporates craft lessons, scenes for study, and concrete guidance in both the art and business of playwriting. The author takes readers through the entire creative process, from creating characters and writing dialogue to revising and producing your play. Each chapter includes incisive craft lessons, provocative writing prompts, examples from plays, tips from working artists, reading recommendations, and more. Thoroughly revised, new features to this edition include:
Vastly expanded sections on structure, world building, business of playwriting, writing for television and film, and more
New writing exercises and pro tips from working playwrights in each chapter
An exploration of art and craft through a new selection of international plays
Shorter chapters with more subject headings to make it easier to find the exact craft lesson or writing prompt you want when you want it
Playwriting with Purpose gives writers and students the tools to succeed in today’s theater industry.
ORIGINAL PLAYS
The Arsonists: Concord Theatricals (Southern Gothic Play with Music)
Babel: Theatrical Rights Worldwide (Futurist Dark Comedy)
Bottle Fly: Yale Press (Southern Gothic Play with Music)
Click: Theatrical Rights Worldwide (Sci-Fi)
The Terrible Girls: Dramatists Play Service (Southern Gothic Horror)
ADAPTATIONS
The Little Mermaid: Theatrical Rights Worldwide (Ages 5+ Adaptation)
A Wind in the Door: Stage Partners (Family Adaptation)
A Christmas Carol: Dramatists Play Service (Family Adaptation with Music)
Little Women: Dramatists Play Service (Family Adaptation with Music)
MUSIC
Alice Tierney (Opera): Mormolyke Press
Generations (Art Song Cycle): Mormolyke Press (Three Songs: The Morning Song, The Darkest Hour, and The Great Work)
Halcyon Days (Choral): Edition Peters
My Harbor, My Home (Choral): Walton Music
A Bright Morning Dawns (Choral): ECS Publishing
POETRY
“Blood on the Side of the Road,” American Poetry Review
“Outside Vega, TX,” Poetry Wales
“We were coming out of the school,” La Piccioletta Barca
“Never Trust Mickey Mouse Dreams,” Beyond Queer Words Anthology
ACADEMIC
Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for Playwrights (book), Routledge (First Edition Available Now, Second Edition Coming 2025)
Guest Editor, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, theme: Revolutions in New Work
Writing Adaptations and Translations for the Stage (book), Routledge