Workshopping the New Play: A Guide for Playwrights Directors and Dramaturgs

Description

Workshopping the New Play is a guide for playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, and other theatre 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 theatres. Throughout the book are essays by well-known theatre 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 theatre.

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.