Playwright and Director The panelists – theatrical agent Joanne Nici, playwright Frank Pugliese (Aven’U Boys), director/writer Geraldine Fitzgerald (Sharon), choreographer ... more information, to watch online, or to download the episode go to Working in the Theatre’s Playwright and Director program page. You can also download directly the Playwright and Director program (mp4).

We are pleased to feature a guest blog by playwright Alex Burger, who was the winner of a short story competition judged by Legend ... part of the London Fringe Festival. The team: A budding playwright (Alex), a wily producer (Daryl), a very cool venue, and ... and triumphs. Stay tuned! Producer Daryl Folkard and playwright Alex Burger and The Old Operating Theatre where the play will be performed ...

Auckland-based playwright Pip Hall has won New Zealand's most significant national theatre award, the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. The 2009 award was announced ... $10,000 full-length play commission. Hall's most recently produced work Who Needs Sleep Anyway was co-written with her playwright father Roger Hall. Her play, ‘The 53rd Victim’, won the 2009 New Zealand Play Award, while her ...

The Guardian's Hermione Hoby spoke with playwright Mike Bartlett before his new play, Cock, opens at London's Royal Court Theatre. Cock ... quot;[TV] has the potential to change the culture in a much bigger, quicker way than theatre can." What do you think? Does it take a playwright with no respect for theater to advance the medium? Or is Bartlett just doing further damage to a dying art? ...

Playwright Steve Waters wrote The Contingency Plan, the acclaimed double-bill about climate change, which premiered at the Bush Theatre in May. (See this blog's posts on TCP: and here it is, where the ice goes, and googling waters. See also Finally, a good play about climate change). I'll be interviewing Steve Waters in Cambridge next Wednesday as part of CRASSH's series ' ...

Hi anybody and everybody! I'm Samantha and I wrote "A Brother's Goodbye," one of the plays selected for this year's Young Playwright's Festival. I have to say that I'm INCREDIBLY excited to work with all the amazingly talented professionals at the Chamber and I can't wait to see the finished product come December. I had a lot of fun at rehearsals in October. I ...

Opening Night of PO BOY TANGO at @EWPlayers with Director Oanh Nguyen & Playwright Kenneth Lin , originally uploaded by !!! :: jozjozjoz :: !!!. Opening Night of PO BOY TANGO (West Coast Premiere) East West Players www.eastwestplayers.org/on_the_stage/po_boy.htm PO BOY TANGO By Kenneth Lin Directed by Oanh Nguyen West Coast Premiere! Shark Fin Soup. Drunken Crab. Black Feather ...

Los Angeles Times: "Chicago-based dramatist Marisa Wegrzyn has won the 2009 Wasserstein Prize for her new play, 'Hickorydickory.' As part of the award, the twentysomething playwright will receive a significant chunk of change -- $25,000, to be exact. In addition, 'Hickorydickory' will receive a reading at Second Stage Theater in New York."

Monday, November 23 at 7:00PM Last Will and Testament In Last Will And Testament playwright Jennifer Houlton introduces us to eight haunted figures wandering a vivid Florida landscape. As they tell their stories, secrets are revealed and lives converge. In language eloquently theatrical and achingly poetic, Ms. Houlton’s play asks us to confront the darkness as we struggle towards the ...

Bonnie Greer described sitting next to Nick Griffin on Question Time as "probably the weirdest and most creepy experience of my life". Mandrake can disclose that it has, however, proved inspirational for the American-born playwright, who is planning to stage an opera about the rise of the British National Party.