And if a playwright were to write such a play, The Royal Court Theater wouldn't produce it.
His income as a part-owner exceeded what he got as a playwright (only a few pounds per play).
Even with two more Bond films on his agenda, Logan still sees himself as first and foremost a playwright.
Zoe Kazan, one of the best of the crop of young American actresses, is also a playwright and screenwriter.
Simon Mawer, a biology teacher turned novelist, and Carl Djerassi, a playwright and novelist who was once a chemistry professor.
Mr. HOWARD CRAFT (Writer, Stealing Clouds): As a playwright, you have to balance the art side with the information side.
Carley, an actor and a playwright, considered keeping his diagnosis a secret.
Ali Salam, a playwright, is one of the many who sat for hours, drinking tea and discussing politics and current events with Mahfouz.
Was it really possible that a playwright had finally gotten up the nerve to take an unsparingly honest look at race relations in America?
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"What's so nice to discover is that if I have to be a playwright, at least I'm a deeply pretentious playwright, " he says, laughing.
His brisk and believable dialogue may seem unsurprising in a playwright.
The extraordinary nature of his life is revealed in these events, and the brilliance of his work as a playwright is chronicled through Keane's description of his plays.
Durang and Weaver met in the fall of 1971 as they entered the Yale School of Drama, he as a playwright who sometimes acted and she as an actress.
Heady stuff indeed, but Ives, a wire-thin man who favors gin martinis as dry as his wit, is enjoying quite a bit of limelight after steadily building an unorthodox career first as a playwright of one-act comedies and lately as a sought-after theatrical medic.
"Picture this, that you lived in a community in which your friends slowly started to die all around you and you couldn't get anyone in any position of authority...to pay attention, " said Larry Kramer, a playwright who became one of the foremost anti-AIDS activists.
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In the two decades since his humor took center stage, Ives is now a playwright who dives into failed plays or musicals and fixes them, whether they're a stage version of the Irving Berlin film "White Christmas, " a French farce about marital mayhem from the early 1900s, or a work by a 17th-century French dramatist.
"A young playwright has a better chance of getting his work performed here, " says Roger Jenkins, artistic director of Dramaplus Arts, a group dedicated to educating students about theater.
This Florentine, best known for his political and philosophical writings, was also a comedic playwright.
Its current show, Theatre of Cruelty, is based on the aesthetics of Antonin Artaud, a French playwright.
In that play, Linklater played a budding playwright frightened to share his work with his crass, pugnacious novelist-turned-tutor, played by Rickman.
And say a British playwright sees the YouTube censored photographs.
Instead of the British monarch who gave her name to the Victorian century, Mr Gay suggests a more representative embodiment of the era: Arthur Schnitzler, a Viennese playwright (pictured above).
Mr Pamuk had also been in the running for the Nobel prize for literature , which was won by Harold Pinter, a British playwright and critic of the war in Iraq.
"This was a very intricate piece of writing which is completely unusual for a neophyte or a beginning playwright, " says Jim Simpson, the founder and artistic director of The Flea Theater, where "The Vandal" is playing.
Coward corresponded with a wide range of 20th-century figures, including Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia, the Queen Mother and Harold Pinter, a British playwright who won the Nobel prize for literature in 2005 and who was 30 years younger than Coward.
Clarke, who works as a poet, playwright, editor, creative writing tutor and translator is well known in schools across the UK as a set-text poet for GCSE and A-level English.
That reading launched Mr. Sedaris career as a novelist and playwright and humorist.
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