Sentences with phrase «playwright who»

Brian Quirk is a playwright who lives in New York City with his husband Diego Daniel Pardo.1 Articles

Living in the back of the burned - out theater in the gardens is Lily Stump, a successful actress and playwright who's a bit down on her luck.

A lively biography of the young black playwright who achieved success and recognition for her contribution to the arts and her hard work as a civil rights activist.

Illuminata is an unfinished play by a playwright who is struggling with writer's block, and Tuccio's future rests on the success of his new play.

Prick Up Your Ears sees Gary Oldman star as the provocative playwright who went from working class Leicester lad to the toast of London's swinging art scene in the 1960s.

Wiig plays a once - promising playwright who's flamed out in NYC and goes back home to New Jersey to live with her wacky mom, her mom's wackier undercover CIA agent boyfriend (an hilarious Matt Dillon), and a young man (Darren Criss) who's renting what used to be her bedroom.

Tom Hollander steals the few scenes he's in as the bitter playwright who serves as Tim's first roommate, while Lydia Wilson is borderline cringe - inducing as Tim's Manic Pixie Dream Girl sister.

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

Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) is a 13 year - old aspiring playwright who witnesses a pair of encounters between her smoldering older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and the housekeeper's charming son, Robbie Turner (James McAvoy).

The writer - director's characters all have them: a rebellious high school senior (Abby Quinn) flirting with boys and heroin for the first time; her soon - to - be-married sister (Jenny Slate), who questions everything after a hookup with an old flame; their mother (Edie Falco), who works around the clock and takes flak from all involved; and their father (John Turturro), a wannabe playwright who may or not be carrying on a decade - long affair (the discovery of a dirty poetry stash sends the sisters hunting for answers).

From the directors of American Splendor and The Nanny Diaries and based on a novel by Bored to Death creator Jonathan Ames, The Extra Man stars Kevin Kline as a poor, eccentric playwright who takes a young writer, played by Paul Dano, under his wing.

In real life Daniels is no recluse, but he is a multitalented actor, musician and playwright who has eschewed the bright lights of Hollywood and New York for a home in Chelsea, Mich..

Kristen Wiig's default mode of defeated exasperation sets the tone for Berman and Pulcini's slow - footed comedy about an out - of - work, loveless New York playwright who's forced to move back in with her wacky mother (Annette Bening) after a fake suicide attempt.

One of the funniest comedies ever, «The Producers» stars Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel as an accountant and playwright who do everything they can to produce a Broadway flop.

Sherwood, played by Michael Angarano (Haywire, Red State), is a failed playwright who Linda decides to redeem by mounting a production of his college thesis play at her school.

Dana's dad (John Turturro), a failed playwright who's settled for a copywriting gig, has always been the «good cop» when it's come to policing family squabbles, but he's not doing such a hot job of hiding the (awful) erotic poetry he's writing for his mistress.

Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, the Irish playwright who made In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri begins like a classic David - versus - Goliath story, pitting this bereaved, enraged mother against the whole damn world.

Bullets follows the shenanigans of David Shayne (John Cusack), an aspiring young playwright who bends to a financier's casting wishes by hiring Olive Neal (Jennifer Tilly), a mobster's wife and parodically bad actress.

A very funny film about a playwright who enlists a gangster to help him bring life and reality to his play, it was one of Allen's best works with hysterically funny performances from John Cusack, the -LSB-...]

Keith Huff, a Chicago - based playwright who has been on staff at «House of Cards» and whose «A Steady Rain» ran on Broadway in 2009, has written the second season.

Timberlake plays Mickey, a lifeguard and aspiring playwright who is having a passionate affair with Ginny (Kate Winslet), a desperate and depressed middle - aged woman who struggles with keeping her abusive husband Humpty (Jim Belushi) sober and her young pyromaniac son behaved.

In Imogene, Wiig plays a New York playwright who fakes a suicide attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend.

He's the head cleric at a sparsely attended tourist church in present - day upstate New York, and not - so - coincidentally shares his name with a left - wing German modernist playwright who Joseph Goebbels once deemed, during the rise of Nazism, «political enemy number one.»

«Bullets Over Broadway «tells the story of David Shayne, a struggling playwright who gets involved with the mob.

Who better to epitomize Nubian beauty and radiance on our cover than the actress / playwright who wields both a sword and a pen with equal adroitness?

Jeremy Irons plays Alex, a dying playwright who is cheered by Lucy's beauty, youth, virginity, and energy.

The 1896 play tells the story of aging actress Irina and her relationship with her son Konstantin, a playwright who is in love with an actress called Nina - the role Ronan will play.

A playwright who is determined to leave the West End and create a novel of meaning, he demands total silence in his household, while he slaves away on projects that never leave the ground.

The icing on the cake is Martin McDonagh, the acclaimed Irish playwright who took a winning stab at writing and directing for the screen in 2008's In Bruges.

He's a mild - mannered ad copy writer and a mediocre wannabe playwright who strives to make art.

Havel was, after all, an intellectual and a playwright who became a political leader.

Catherine Trieschmann is an award - winning playwright who lives in Hays, Kansas with her husband, two daughters, and the wind.

Which reminded me of a poem by Bertolt Brecht, the German poet and playwright who cast his lot with communist East Germany after World War II.

Another analogy is that of a playwright who also directs the play.

«And also... there may be political playwrights who want to be more aggressive than I am, but I really believe strongly that the easiest thing to do is just to be incredibly cynical.

The Making Mischief Festival in Stratford upon Avon features work playwrights who are challenging and questioning society.

Corey This is a bold freshman venture by Cory Finley, a member of Youngblood, a collection of playwrights who are under the age of thirty.

There are well - known attorneys, preachers, and playwrights who grew up in poverty but had superior innate verbal wiring.

Not exact matches

When nine women came forth with sexual misconduct allegations against his father, playwright Israel Horowitz, in The New York Times, Beastie Boys member Adam «Ad - Rock» Horovitz, 51, made headlines when he publicly took the side of the women who came forth.

It is what all are supposed to be opposed to, not only by Marxists, who spent more than a century vilifying (and misdefining) the term, but also by humanists, poets, playwrights, churchmen, journalists, and all sensitive spirits.

My reticence to declare Shakespeare's religious affiliation also disturbs David Beauregard, who writes that I may be setting the «bar of proof absurdly high,» and who wonders why the Catholic patterns I find in the plays do not persuade me of the playwright's personal confession.

In speaking of «recent scholars who have used the new scholarship,» Miola kindly mentions my name as a «Jesuit who detects Jesuit influence on the playwright in The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays (1997) and other works.»

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.»

If one asked an arts journalist to identify a major living painter or sculptor, playwright or choreographer, composer or poet, who was a practicing Catholic, the critic, I suspect, would be unable to offer a single name.

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.

The Italian Nobel prize - winning playwright Dario Fo, author of Accidental Death of an Anarchist, has traced Grillo's emergence to a tradition going back in Italian culture to medieval times — of the giullari, or «jugglers,» strolling comics who went around trading in sarcasm, irony, ridicule, and stories at the expense of the great and powerful.

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.

Years after the trial, the playwrights met with Hays, who may have influenced their picture of Bryan.

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.

I'm also working on another project, which is a collaboration with my brother, Ryan Falkner — a story board artist, director and actor — and my friend Cintra Wilson who is a playwright, novelist and just another punk rocker.