New, Improved Playwright's Survival Guide Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life

Name: New, Improved Playwright's Survival Guide Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life
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ISBN: 9780325008165

ISBN-10: 0325008167

ISBN-13: 9780325008165

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Gary Garrison

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The honesty and humor make me laugh out loud with tears of joy and pain streaming down my face. I want to give it to everyone I know - its such a life lesson. - Carolyn J. Griffin, Managing Director, Metro Stage The fundamental value of this book is that it outs the playwright as a vulnerable human, living in the messy and dirty real world . Chatty, not analytical, more Ethel Merman than Antonin Artaud, this book is good company. - Mike Kenny, Research in Drama Education The first edition of The Playwright's Survival Guide made life simpler for writers by offering an emotional, spiritual, and commonsensical approach to the profession and, most important, to their own writing. Now Gary…

Book details

List price: $21.90
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 10/14/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.33" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Gary Garrison is a published and produced playwright fearlessly slugging it out in New York City. His plays include Old Soles, Oh Messiah Me, Cherry Reds, An Angel in the Early Bird Special, The Big Fat Naked Truth, and When a Diva Dreams. He is Artistic Director and Division Head of Playwriting for the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, National Chair of Playwriting for the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival, and the recipient of the 2005 Outstanding Teacher of Playwriting for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: For Words





For Your Heart


You're the Play


Skippy, Jake, and the Spitfire Within


Thump It Before You Buy It


Sing Out, Louise!


For Your Soul


Spandex, My Bicep, and Writer's Block


The Ties That Bind Us: Mother, Mentor, Father, Teacher


I've Been to the Dark Side (And Now I Want the Light)


Tina Turner, Lanford Wilson, and Me


Flush It (An Internal Monologue)





For Your Head


Grilled Cheese Ain's Just a Sandwich


Who Are All These People and What Are They Doing to My Play?


Gauged Bleedings


Who Needs an Agent!?


New York Hits Back


Instruction or Destruction?


Submitting Your Plays: The Most Necessary Evil


For the Record


For Good Measure


Basic Dramatic Structure


Show Me How to Do It


Give Me the Facts


Just...Think on It


I'm Withholding My Name





For Yo' Mama


Behave!


Slap Yourself


An Open Letter to Those Who Love and Support Us


After Words