Workshopping the New Play

George Sapio

ISBN 10: 1495088227 / ISBN 13: 9781495088223

Published by Hal Leonard Corporation, US, 2017

About this Item

Workshopping the New Play is a guide for playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, and other theater professional and students. The book begins with an overview of the basics of playwriting and goes on to cover all aspects of the new-play workshopping process: selecting a director and/or dramaturg to run the workshop sessions, assembling a team of actor/readers and dealing with constructive criticism, putting together a staged reading of one's work, structuring a successful talkback, and properly and professionally submitting one's work to theaters. Throughout the book are essays by well-known theater professionals: playwrights, teachers, dramaturgs, an artistic director, a spoken word performer, and workshopping experts. The book is written in a friendly, nonacademic style, but should be valuable for educators as well as practitioners of theater.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Workshopping the New Play
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation, US
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1495088227
• ISBN 13: 9781495088223
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 268 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Workshopping the New Play is a guide for playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, and other theater professional and students. The book begins with an overview of the basics of playwriting and goes on to cover all aspects of the new-play workshopping process: selecting a director and/or dramaturg to run the workshop sessions, assembling a team of actor/readers and dealing with constructive criticism, putting together a staged reading of one's work, structuring a successful talkback, and properly and professionally submitting one's work to theaters. Throughout the book are essays by well-known theater professionals: playwrights, teachers, dramaturgs, an artistic director, a spoken word performer, and workshopping experts. The book is written in a friendly, nonacademic style, but should be valuable for educators as well as practitioners of theater.

About the Author

GEORGE SAPIO (Ithaca, NY) is an award-winning playwright, director, producer, dramaturg, actor, and educator. He is the founder artistic director of the Ithaca Fringe Festival and works with several theatre troupes. He produces and hosts Onstage/Offstage, a radio show and podcast featuring interviews with theatre professionals. Sapio earned an MFA in playwriting at Goddard College. His work can be found listed at newplayexchange.org as well as on his website, gsapio.com.