Naked Playwriting, 2nd Edition Revised and Updated: The Art, the Craft, and the Life Laid Bare

""Naked Playwriting" is a complete, comprehensive playwriting course-from developing a theme through plotting and structuring a play, developing characters, creating dialog, formatting a script, and plying methods that aid the actual writing and rewriting processes. It also offers guidance on marketing and submitting play scripts for both contests and production, getting an agent, protecting one's copyright, and working with directors, actors, and theater companies. This new edition, in addition to fully updating the material in the popular first edition, adds detailed information on such recent develops as "Zoom plays" and "devised theater"; writing non-formulaic plays that create their own structures; a new emphasis on writing 10-minute and one-act plays; completely revised play submission guidelines that reflect a process that has wholly changed since the first edition was published; an section on the now-popular trend of moving from playwriting to TV scripting; material on the growing trend toward playwrights directing their own plays; and much more. Well-written and filled with illustrative examples, it provides both innovative and tried-and-true writing techniques, sage advice from veteran writers, a short study of the major schools of dramatic thought, and pertinent writing anecdotes. This one-of-a-kind playwriting book will help both novices and working writers discover and improve their playwriting skills and get their plays produced"--

William Missouri Downs has had hundreds of productions, from the Kennedy Center to San Diego Rep and all over the world. More than a dozen of his plays have been published. He has also written for several NBC sitcoms. Robin Uriel Russin is a professor of screenwriting and playwriting at the University of California, Riverside. A Rhodes Scholar and WGA member, he has written, produced, and directed film, TV, and theater. His plays and films have been widely produced and distributed and have won awards at festivals around the world.