Backgrounds Quote by Skylar Astin

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort…

— David Ives

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

I've always wanted to nudge my way into writing something scripted - maybe for other people, maybe a play - and I thought it…

— Ivo Graham

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and…

— John Logan

I'm getting more selective, the more I do. As an actor, you want to do a variety of things, but first and foremost, it's…

— Holliday Grainger

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have…

— Sara Gilbert

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond…

— Aaron Sorkin

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support…

— Tony Kushner

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

— Cherry Jones

I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a…

— Suzanne Collins

I've had a long association with the theater over the years but I had never produced a play and it was something that I'd…

— Colin Callender

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

— Jerry Hall