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London Playwrights directed me to this fun writing prompt YouTube channel, with new prompts every Monday and Friday morning. The embedded video is focused on “tension,” but there are many others. “Start your mornings on the right creative foot with a dynamic writing activity facilitated by playwright and dramaturg Jesse Stong!” Find them all at the channel, here.
Simon Stephens, playwright from Royal Exchange Theatre in London, conducts a playwriting workshop with playwrights interested in submitting for the Bruntwood Prize, 2015. I really enjoyed some of the prompts he uses in this workshop. For example, he suggests one write for five minutes straight, a series of sentences all beginning with “I remember …”
“Where do you get your ideas?” Every artist dreads having to answer that most common of all questions. Well, every artist with the exception of David Lynch. The director of such modern cinematic quasi-nightmares as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive will gladly explain exactly where he gets his ideas: from his own consciousness, “the TV in your mind.” He’ll also gladly explain …
In the time of the pandemic When everyone is quarantined We can be grateful For the generosity of theater people! Recording of Zoom Playwriting Workshop with Young Jean Lee from Young Jean Lee on Vimeo.
The Orange Tree Theatre in the UK is offering a free streaming event of their production of Amsterdam by Maya Arad Yasur. The play will be streamed free on January 27, 7:30 pm. Here’s the link to watch. Amsterdam description: “An Israeli violinist. Living in her trendy canal-side Amsterdam apartment. Nine months pregnant. One day a mysterious unpaid gas bill …
YouTube is an excellent place for playwriting resources and education. I’ve posted Paula Vogel before, and here’s another hour-long craft lecture by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, this one from the Sewanee Writers Conference. Image by KoalaParkLaundromat from Pixabay.
The American Theatre Wing (who hosts the Tony Awards) offers a series of videos called “Working in Theatre” on Vimeo. This segment on Playwriting features David Henry Hwang, who admits he can’t stop rewriting. Perhaps you can relate. More: “‘There’s no formula for how to write a good play. Nobody knows what’s going to be successful, even if you define …
I recently came across a wonderful Dramatists Guild Fund interview with Paula Vogel on Youtube. Paula’s 15 plays have been produced all over the US and the world. She was the director of the Brown University playwriting program for more than 20 years and also taught at Yale University, concurrent with her stint as the playwright in residence at Yale …