Sentences with phrase «as playwright»

Knowing where to draw the line is important, and judges must often be tempted to stray from their field to greener fictional grass in the next meadow; but, as a playwright once said Quod licet iovi, non licet bovi, which, in this case may be roughly translated as «Hey, judge, get off the grass!»

As a playwright, he has been produced at MCC Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and Soho Rep; published by Samuel French and Broadway Play Publishing.

Strider became an important part of the New York avant garde, while Drexler went on to an award - winning career as playwright and novelist.

Alice Neel, Uptown features both well known figures such as playwright, actress and author Alice Childress; sociologist Horace R. Clayton Jr.; and community activist Mercedes Arroyo, as well as anonymous individuals like children, families, a taxi driver, a ballet dancer, a nurse and a boy who ran errands for Neels.

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.

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, a local kid who ran errands for Neel, and other children and their families.

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.

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.

It's not the most necessary thing in the world, but it'll fill in the blanks as to Devitt, the weird eye motif, the Four Witnesses, and the secret society known as The Playwright.

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

As the playwright George Bernard Shaw put it: «The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

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?»

After a time working as a playwright and a play reader for the Royal Court Theatre in London, he returned to Nigeria, where he taught in the Universities of Lagos, Ibadan, and Ife (becoming...

The youngest generation might know him as the lugubrious voice of Winnie - The - Pooh and friends in the BBC audio recordings from the 1990s; the next generation up are likely to know him as the playwright of The Madness of George III, or the more recent The History Boys (which won six Tonys including Best Play); and the generation above may admit to being old enough to have seen him perform with Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller in Beyond The Fringe (see sidebar).

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

Not half as sorry as I was, even though I'd made a very good career as a playwright.

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

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.

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.

She moved back to the Bay Area with her partner and four - year - old daughter to continue her work as a playwright and teacher.

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.

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.

A film graduate (M.F.A. in Directing from the American Film Institute) who to this point, has had more experience working as a playwright, Bill Oliver has moved feature film into the forefront with his directorial debut.

After establishing his reputation as a playwright, Martin McDonagh made a remarkably confident movie debut in 2004 directing the Oscar - winning, half - hour Six Shooter, set on a train in his native Ireland, where grieving widower Brendan Gleeson is confronted by a gun - toting psychopath.

Thorne started off as a playwright, and after some time with the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers Programme, debuted his breakthrough play «When You Cure Me» at the Bush Theatre in London in 2005 (other ones have followed, including «Fanny and Faggot,» «Bunny,» «2 May 1997» and, most recently, a new version of «The Physicists «-RRB-.

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

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.

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

No surprise that screenwriter Brian Nelson started out as a playwright — Hard Candy is not so much small - scale as it is proscenium - bound.

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

Long known for his acclaimed work as a playwright, McDonagh's twisted yet captivating characters and scenarios have also made for compelling film viewing, starting with his directorial debut «Six Shooter,» which earned an Academy Award in 2006 for Best Live - Action Short Film, and followed by In Bruges (shot by Eigil Bryld) and Seven Psychopaths.

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.

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.

(The traditionalism of the school itself, so central to Max's sense of his own identity, is clearly part of this period ambiguity, along with the importance of Watergate, Serpico, and Vietnam to Max's career as a playwright.)

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Writer / director Martin McDonagh - making his debut here - has infused the majority of In Bruges with a deliberately - paced, overly talky sensibility that undoubtedly reflects his background as a playwright, and it's certainly difficult not to admire the fervor with which both Farrell and Gleeson tackle their respective characters and the film's ample dialogue (the actors» heavy accents does make it difficult to make out every word, admittedly).

As a playwright (Red / Rouge), Laura Anne Harris has addressed sex work in her plays, which has made her interviews with filmmakers addressing the topic particularly fruitful.

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.

Though Strouse reportedly based his screenplay on his own difficulties making a name for himself as a playwright early in his career, the film's look into the life of struggling artist Jessica James (Jessica Williams) feels familiar at best.

After graduating high school, he worked on a career as a playwright, only to be advised to be an actor by his professors.

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

Born in New Jersey With a successful career as playwright, composer and motivational trainer internationally, has lived in California and Hawaii for the past 22 years!