Sentences with phrase «reputation as a playwright»

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

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.

Not exact matches

However, even as a respected poet and playwright before his death, his reputation as the world's first dramatist and the grandfather of modern theater came posthumously.

I agree that the story in Indigo Prophecy isn't the greatest story ever told, but I'd be willing to give it «good - for - a-videogame,» which is all we're likely to get unless one of two things happens: game companies start hiring proven professional writers who have learned how to adapt their talents to videogame writing's unique challenges, or a game designer simultaneously builds a reputation as a published author, screenwriter or playwright.