Sentences with phrase «for playwright»

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Entrepreneur — ELLES Boutique, City, ST 2005 to Present Established in 2005 teaching etiquette to young ladies ages 9 through 17, and in 2001 expanded to successful consulting business and publishing company, and further plans in 2012 for a playwright / production company.

Named for playwright Arthur Miller, an ardent advocate for a writer's right to freedom of expression, the annual lecture is a hallmark of the Festival and its culminating event.

It's also notable for being the first major motion picture screenplay for playwright David Mamet (The Untouchables, Glengarry Glen Ross), and while not one of his most refined works, it does offer a bit more humanity to the characters than had been the case incarnations.

Here, she becomes the protagonist, with her forced to navigate her high society position, her own friendship with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara (an excellent Bruce Greenwood), and her misogynist board of directors, with only one of them unquestionably having her back through it all (another fine part for playwright / actor Tracy Letts).

The general measure of audience enjoyment for a film based on Simon has everything to do with one's tolerance for the playwright.

Plays are play, as Walter Ong observes, except for the playwright and perhaps some of the paying public.5 Moreover, while most would say that tennis and drama provide at least the occasion for play (even if some tennis players, for example, are not actually «playing»), the list of possible play activities is much broader than we often imagine, including much of life - more, in any case, than just tennis, reading, dancing, etc..

Dramatists Guild Website: www.dramatistsguild.com Professional association for playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists.

This is a common problem for playwrights and screenwriters.

It's an opportunity for playwrights of every gender, race, and creed to partner with Shakespeare.

Not exact matches

«For a thoughtful portrait, turn to playwright Lynn Nottage.»

In the future, we hope that when playwrights and song writers hear man - machine duet, they'll be inspired to use new technology on their next composition for the stage.

Playwright Lynn Nottage joins Lunch Break's Tanya Rivero to discuss the inspiration for her work and the honor of being the first woman to receive two Pulitzer prizes for Drama.

Mark Leiren - Young is a Vancouver screenwriter, playwright and journalist, and files his «Fast Rewind» summary of the news for The Tyee at the end of every month.

Playwright, novelist and LGBT rights activist Larry Kramer is still making a stand for all Americans.

French playwright Antonin Artaud, and many postmodern thinkers, for example, would say that reality is experiential.

For that matter, why can't a contemporary playwright appreciate that something real actually goes on in religious thought?

When marriage is reduced to a contract for mutual economic advantage among any configuration of consenting adults, something essential in what Christians understand to be «marriage» is lost: something «deep - down - diving,» to borrow from the playwright Ibsen.

In her choreopoem, «for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf,» black feminist playwright Ntozake Shange affirms her pursuit by claiming «i found god in myself & i loved her / i loved her fiercely.»

Yet all fiction writers (and playwrights and filmmakers, for that matter) must make similar imaginative leaps, and will be judged — as Styron has been judged — by how convincingly they portray the characters whose points of view they've done their best to assume.

Unlike contemporary Hollywood images of middle age — for instance, the playwright played by Diane Keaton in «Something's Got ta Give» (2003), wealthy, accomplished, charming, and still sexy — Fassbinder's Emmi is fat, wrinkled, silly, and a cleaning lady, the bottom of the social barrel.

This passage doesn't come wholly from the playwright's imagination — Karol Wotjyla was well - known for his outdoorsmanship.

The lesson emphatically taught by both author and playwright seems to me obvious: Denial of Christ leads to death of the soul, despite any contrary voice one has imagined in order to make up for the silence of God.

Edward Albee the playwright said in a television interview that anyone who bought a ticket to see one of his plays had to assume some of the responsibility for that play.

George Orwell once notoriously criticized Shakespeare for his bourgeois «Tory predilection for hierarchy and aristocracy, holding that the views of the playwright came through only in the voice of kings or nobles.

Then there was the constant demand for text from the company's playwright.

She saw a new play by Uganda's leading young playwright, Alex Mukulu, titled «Excuse Me, Muzungu» («Muzungu» is a term for Europeans).

Homosexual activists like the playwright Larry Kramer and the writer Gabriel Rotello, author of Sexual Ecology — an important weaving together of ecology theory, epidemiology, and sexual politics — have been ferociously attacked by their fellow gay activists for publicly acknowledging that AIDS results as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes.

Playwright and performer alike learned all the words of the text so that, if the police came looking for a playbook, there would not be one.

The protagonist of Humboldt's Gift, Charlie Citrine, is a successful playwright and biographer who returns to the Chicago of his boyhood; muddles about in the urban scene while trying to straighten out a marital problem; leaves for Spain with a large friend, Renata; is deserted by her; returns to America to bury his old friend Von Humboldt Fleisher; and receives his bequest.

A great man, the Czech statesman and playwright Vaclav Havel, died this December, and for whatever reason, his death received very little notice in America.

Jennifer Chen is a freelance writer and editor, playwright, and middle - grade author who can't wait for Hodo Soy to sell tofu in LA.

Evolved from a conversation between Evanston playwright Gloria Bond Cunie and CCT's Artistic Director Jacqueline Russell, the play takes themes from Michael Tyler's picture book for children, The Skin You Live In.

For me, it's always like some sort of divine stylist plucked George Bernard Shaw, that Irish terrier of a playwright, out of London's Fitzroy Square and dropped him down in Wicker Park, Logan Square or Pilsen.

«Hailed «The Vagina Monologues for birth», Birth is a documentary - style play based on over one hundred interviews playwright Karen Brody conducted with mothers across America.

The TV drama is the next big project for the prolific playwright behind modern political favourites such as This House, Ink and Labour of Love.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

The figurehead role was initially uncontroversial, being filled for the first ten years by the revered dissident playwright, Vaclav Havel.

The eastern DRC has alternately been described as «the worst place in the world for women» by The Guardian and «hell» by American feminist playwright Eve Ensler.

So far, the motivation behind CUNY Trustee Jeff Wiesenfeld's rejection of an honorary degree for Tony Kushner has been attributed to his believe that the Pulitzer prizewinning playwright harbors anti-Israel views.

Professor Jim Al - Khalili, President of the BHA Phillip Pullman, author Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster Tim Minchin, musician and writer Dr Simon Singh, science writer Ken Follett, novelist Dr Adam Rutherford, broadcaster and science writer Sir John Sulston FRS, Nobel Prize winning scientist Sir David Smith FRS FRSE, eminent botanist Professor Jonathan Glover, philosopher Professor Anthony Grayling, philosopher Nick Ross, broadcaster CJ De Mooi, actor and professional quizzer Virginia Ironside, writer Professor Steven Rose, scientist and writer Natalie Haynes, comedian and writer Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner Professor Raymond Tallis FMedSci, physician, philosopher and author Dr Iolo ap Gwynn FRMS, scientist and mountaineer Stephen Volk, screenwriter and author Professor Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics, science writer and broadcaster Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, Fantasy fiction author, satirist Dr Evan Harris, Former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the BHA Dr Richard Bartle, Professor of Computer Game Design Sian Berry, Green campaigner, politician and author Professor John A Lee, Consultant Histopathologist and Professor of Pathology Professor Richard Norman, philosopher Zoe Margolis, author Joan Smith, journalist and author Michael Gore, CVO CBE Derek McAuley, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches Lorraine Barratt, former member of the Welsh Assembly Dr Susan Blackmore, writer and broadcaster Dr Harry Stopes - Roe, Vice President of the BHA Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC (Hon), human rights lawyer Adele Anderson, actor and singer Dr Helena Cronin, Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science Professor Alice Roberts, Anatomist, author and broadcaster Professor Chris French, Professor of Psychology, editor of The Skeptic Sir Tom Blundell, scientist Maureen Duffy, poet, playwright and novelist Baroness Whitaker, Labour peer Lord Avebury, Liberal Democrat peer Richard Herring, writer and comedian Martin Rowson, writer and cartoonist Tony Hawks, comedian, writer, musician and philanthropist Peter Cave, philosopher and author Diane Munday, campaigner Professor Norman MacLean, Biologist Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS, Nobel prize winner, Professor of Chemistry Sir Richard Dalton, former Diplomat Sir David Blatherwick, KCMG, OBE, Diplomat and writer Michael Rubenstein, writer and legal expert Polly Toynbee, columnist and broadcaster Lord O'Neill, labour peer

Playwright and trailblazing activist Eve Ensler made her name talking to women about their vaginas — the resulting Vagina Monologues became a global phenomenon and watershed moment for feminist theatre.

In Media and Entertainment, her focus is on various programs to provide women opportunities in film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrights.

The National Theatre's outgoing artistic director Sir Nicholas Hytner has warned playwrights are being hit hard, for example.

Wiesenfeld, a conservative Democrat who worked briefly for the Pataki administration, is a controversial figure who has engaged in some high - profile verbal battles over the years, including an effort to block the playwright Tony Kushner from receiving an honorary degree.

The playwright further noted that he withdrew his support for former President Goodluck Jonathan because he was becoming authoritarian while in office, alleging that the former president also committed what he described alarming errors of governance.

Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State in the April election has described foremost environmentalist, playwright and human rights activist, Ken Saro - Wiwa as a great Nigerian who lived and died for a worthy cause.

Famous sufferers include Lou Gehrig, the 1923 - 39 New York Yankees baseball player; actor and playwright Sam Shepard, who died last month; and Hawking, a rare example of someone living for decades with the condition.

PLAYWRIGHT: But there are so many deeper elements to the artistry: for instance, in contriving textual structure and dramatic form to illustrate content.

Steve Mirsky here, and welcome back for part 2 of Dan Falk talking about his book The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe.

When the British magazine Prospect asked its readers to vote for England's leading public intellectual last summer, Dawkins emerged victorious atop a list that included the playwright Tom Stoppard, feminist Germaine Greer, historian Simon Schama, and a host of other seemingly more household names.