Playwriting: The Merciless Craft: Comprehensive Techniques for Mastering Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Playwriting

Wolf, Carol

ISBN 10: 151489906X / ISBN 13: 9781514899069

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Playwriting: The Merciless Craft: Comprehensive Techniques for Mastering Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Playwriting
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 151489906X
• ISBN 13: 9781514899069
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This book is designed to serve concurrently the writer who has never written a play, but would like to write a good one; journeyman playwrights who would like to increase their skill set, deepen their knowledge of the craft and increase the power of their work; and advanced playwrights who are seeking new horizons to challenge their already considerable craftsmanship. For the beginning playwright, this book provides specific techniques in how to design your material to work in the theater; for the writer who is already a practiced playwright, this book provides a tool box of skills for plotting, story structure, character development, theatricality, and multiple uses of dialog, to broaden and strengthen your work. It provides a diagnostic tool for trouble-shooting your plays, so that every moment of your plays will work in the theater as you envision them. For the advanced playwright, this book provides layers of techniques to test against your skill set, deepen your dramatic powers, and widen the horizons of your craft. Carol Wolf's plays have been produced on both coasts and on five continents. The plays of her playwriting students have been produced on both coasts and on four continents, so far.

About the Author

Carol Wolf’s plays have been seen on both coasts and on five continents, and include The Terrible Experiment of Jonathan Fish, Daughter of France, Day/BlackNight/Morning, and The Thousandth Night, which won the London Fringe First, the Bay Area Critic’s Circle Award, and an L.A. Drama Critic’s Circle Award. Wolf taught Master’s classes in Playwriting at Manhattan College, Mills College, and classes in playwriting at Foothill College, the UC Santa Cruz Extension Program, and Mills College. She wrote the the scripts for the blockbuster video games Blood Omen II: Legacy of Kain, and Legacy of Kain: Defiance. She co-founded the micro-budget film company Paw Print Studios, for which she wrote and directed two feature films, The Valley of Fear, and Far from the Sea, and is currently in post production with the documentary, Letters to my Grandchildren. Her novels, Summong, and Binding, Books One and Two of the Moon Wolf Saga were published by Night Shade Books. Coyote Run, with Eric Elliott, was published by Short Fuse and is under option by Tapas Media. She lives in the foothills of the California Sierra Nevadas in with her husband, two border collies, and a varying number of sheep.