To Be a Playwright

Janet Neipris is a Professor of Dramatic Writing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Her own plays have been produced nationally and internationally at theatres including the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Arena Stage, the Goodman, the Royal National Theatre, London, and the China Arts Theatre, Beijing. She has lectured around the world on playwriting as craft and art.

Introduction 1. The Twelve Habits of Highly Successful Playwrights 2. A Room of Your Own 3. Fifty Question to Ask When Writing a Play 4. Character 5. Dialogue: The ways our characters speak to us 6. Location: Passports to playwriting 7. Ending 8. Rewriting 9. Journals 10. The Making of a Play: "A Small Delegation" from Beijing to home 11. Adapting from Fact and Fiction 12. The Dos and Don'ts of Playwriting: What i know to be true 13. Critics 14. The Education of a Playwright 15. What They Told Me 16. To be a Playwright Notes Index