Sentences with phrase «success as a playwright»

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

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Though subsequent performances in Better Than Sex (2000) and Russian Doll (2001) earned Wenham even more critical acclaim overseas, it was his role as a transvestite playwright in director Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge that gave the rising star his first true taste of international success.

This examination of the black playwright's upbringing in segregated Chicago and ultimate success as a groundbreaking writer is both well - told and well - supported with unique sources from fellow playwrights to professors.

Playwright and screenwriter David Mamet (The Untouchables, The Postman Always Rings Twice) takes his first crack at direction with modest success, mostly due to his skills as a writer than anything else.

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.

Smithee's monologue seems to appropriately inhabit the space that the playwright Samuel Beckett proposed with the dictum «Fail better,» of which Stephen Marche recently wrote, «To fail better, to fail gracefully and with composure, is so essential because there's no such thing as success.