Sentences with phrase «as a playwright»

Greiner graduated from Loyola Marymount Chicago with a degree in journalism and communications, and worked as a playwright upon graduation.

Letts, a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble and a Pulitzer Prize winner for August: Osage County, launched his career as a playwright with Killer Joe, about a sadistic Dallas cop who moonlights as a hit man, and followed it with Bug, chronicling the romance between a lonely middle - aged woman and a paranoid schizophrenic who believes his skin is crawling with insects.

The film stars Julianne Moore as a high school English teacher whose life takes a turn when a former star student returns after failing as a playwright in New York City.

The grid of paradoxes continues to unfold in Eastern Europe as the playwright of the absurd seeks to guide a nation in making sense out of the suffering of the past and an unknown future.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.

Vanbrugh had no previous experience as an architect or designer - in fact, he was best known as a playwright.

The English Teacher (Unrated) Julianne Moore handles the titular role as a spinster with a pair of Siamese cats whose life is disrupted by the return to town of a former student (Michael Angarano) after failing as a playwright in the Big Apple.

In many ways, Chicago - based artist Kerry James Marshall -LRB-»78 Fine Arts) has depicted the African American experience on canvas much as playwright August Wilson chronicled it for the theater.

In science, every new discovery raises 10 new questions, as playwright George Bernard Shaw sardonically declared in a dinner toast to Albert Einstein.

Also in attendance were the stars of the play Billy Carter, Johnny Flynn, Mark Addy, Reece Shearsmith, Gaby French and Sally Rogers, as well as playwright Martin McDonagh, director Matthew Dunster and managing director Jeffory Lawson.

Letts, a Steppenwolf Theatre Company member, has arguably built his reputation as a playwright on shock value: nudity, violence, and mad - scientist plotting.

During the first week of September the British Shakespeare Association hosted a conference in Yorkshire, England, to engage with the legacy of Shakespeare as a playwright on the 400th anniversary of his death.

A narrative designer and writer with experience as a playwright, Myers pitched the idea for Codename Cygnus during a meeting of the, a roundtable for indie game designers.

In the case of Shakespeare as a playwright, I firmly believe allowance in the classroom for creative exploration of him as an artist, theatre - maker and writer is essential as a foundation for thematic and interpretation.

Irish writer / director Martin McDonagh has made a name as a playwright and filmmaker through comedies of crime and consequence that dare audiences to consider heavy themes amidst dark tones and cruel twists.

In 1946 she returned to the theatre, this time as a playwright.

If it is true, as the playwright William Saroyan once wrote, that the best part of a man «stays forever,» Warren Zevon's music will live on.

Everything in Shakespeare's plays» not to mention his profession as playwright» suggests that he was not fond of Puritans.

The health - giving importance of drama in the Waldorf grade school and the role of the class teacher as playwright, director, and producer

The forced atomisation of the industry was equivalent, as playwright David Hare pointed out, to employing cooks, waiters and washer - uppers from different companies to run a restaurant.

Like all origin stories, it would ultimately prove fictional, but it showed me what I love, what I want, and, as a playwright friend of mine likes to say, «what I want to want.»

BIRO, a multi-media solo performance piece, was Mwine's first effort as a playwright.

After a successful run as a playwright in New York in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Sturges moved to Hollywood, where Paramount paid him a lavish $ 2,500 per week.

Christopher Reeve (Superman, The Remains of the Day) stars as playwright Richard Collier, who is visited as a college student by a strange old woman telling him to come back to her, giving him an antique time piece.

I know him mostly as a playwright, what was it like working with him?

As a playwright turned feature film director, Finley adapts to the new medium as if it was his calling all along.

He is back at the A. R. T. as playwright and star in a furry, floppy - eared hat, a bemused expression, and a whale of a performance in NICE FISH.

Gurira was Tony nominated as a playwright for her play Eclipsed.

At its core, the film is a return to LaBute's early roots as a playwright, as his favorite theme of the dark, cynical nature of relationships is explored using just two characters, but from rotating perspectives that constantly surprise.

Artistic Statement (If applying as a playwright / director team, Sundance Institute requires a statement from both the playwright and director)

Enter a buffoonish, basically illiterate actor named Shakespeare (Rafe Spall), who's game to be paid as a playwright, but would really prefer to act in the plays.

The story, which has been a passion project for Wiig, has the Bridesmaids actress as a playwright who fakes her suicide to get back...

I met with Coxon and we talked in depth about her journey, working with Tom Hooper and how her background as a playwright helped her during the making of The Danish Girl.

Writer John Mortimer throws theater, history and speculation into the dramatic mix and comes up with a series of episodes that lurches from period to period, sketching out such legendary characters as playwright Christopher Marlowe (Ian McShane), actor Dick Burbage, Shakespeare's sponsor the Earl of Southampton, and the mysterious «Dark Lady» of his sonnets

In the Season 1 episode «Oh Come All Ye Faithful,» Hickey guests as playwright Thomas John Anderson who must immediately shower after sex — something he blames a nun for teaching him.

Director and writer, Kenneth Lonergan, has a background as a playwright so I shouldn't be surprised that brooding drama and interpersonal look into the story's character's make for something more than the basic film drama.

John Patrick Shanley holds a unique position as both playwright and screenwriter.

Also nominated were Julie Harris, recreating her stage role as the young girl in The Member of the Wedding; Bette Davis, again playing a fading actress in The Star; Joan Crawford with her final nomination as a playwright in Sudden Fear; and Susan Hayward in the biopic of World War II entertainer Jane Froman, With a Song in My Heart.

Dan and Stacy Chariton wrote the script, which follows a high school English teacher Linda Sinclair (Moore) whose life is upended when a former star pupil returns to her small town after failing miserably as a playwright in New York.

The conference gathered academics and educators from around the world to discuss new ideas in literary and historical research around Shakespeare, as well as new strategies for teaching and learning of Shakespeare with a focus on his relevance as a playwright in secondary schooling.

Estranged from his mother and drinking heavily, Lotto finds unexpected success as a playwright.

He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company.

As playwright Alan Bennett said, «A book is a device to ignite the imagination».

After receiving a BA in Theater from Butler University in 1970, and refusing to serve in the military, Kurlansky worked in New York as a playwright, having a number... (more)

When he learns of his assignment — to infiltrate a prison in Malta and rescue a double agent who has critical information about a planned assassination attempt on the Queen — he finds himself overwhelmed with uncertainty, only agreeing to the job after realizing that his training as a playwright has in fact prepared him well for the contretemps and complexity of power - broking:» «What if this were my play?»

Barone traces Ryman's career and influences from his days as a playwright «creating short fast - paced scenes that explored characters with twisted pysches» to his current body of work «an installation made up mostly of larger - than - life size roses.»

However, «women still lag far behind men as playwrights, composers, directors and designers.»