“We are playwrights in that we spontaneously compose and direct dialogue, acting out various roles of a nurturer, an authority, or a… — Jeffrey A. Kottler Copy Share Image
You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap. — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those playwrights who says, 'Show up, hit your marks, and don't talk to me!' I always want to… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
I'm no longer going to play thugs or debauched cops that I can't possibly make complex characters. I'm bigger than that. I… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience. — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who… — Sam Claflin Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I'm doing a play at Trafalgar Studios with The Jamie Lloyd Company - 'The Maids' by Jean Genet with Uzo Aduba and… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,'… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone… — Jennifer Tipton Copy Share Image
Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically,… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who… — Alfred Lunt Copy Share Image
