Sentences with phrase «well as playwright»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

If it is true, as the playwright William Saroyan once wrote, that the best part of a man «stays forever,» Warren Zevon's music will live on.

Playwright Athol Fugard manages to write and produce his plays in South Africa as well as in London and New York, but he claims that he must use caution.

[198] In addition to novels, other literature arts such as Ghanaian theatre and poetry have also had a very good development and support at the national level with prominent Ghanaian playwrights and poets Joe de Graft and Efua Sutherland.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan: «He is best known as a novelist, but he's also an historian, a journalist, a critic, an essayist, a poet, a philosopher, a screenwriter, a playwright and a treasured friend and colleague to many.

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.

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.

Playwright Terence McNally is probably best - known for Corpus Christie — his controversial stage drama about Jesus and his apostles as gay men in contemporary Texas.

Under Pam MacKinnon's ruthlessly incisive direction, Tracy Letts and Amy Morton — playwright and star of the celebrated «August: Osage County» — reunite as a particularly well - matched George and Martha, whose epic battles are as dangerous as their need for each other is palpable.

Framed by a boisterous dinner scene between playwright friends, alarm bells ring early in Melinda and Melinda when conversation turns to whether a random scenario, the arrival of an unexpected stranger at a dinner party, would work best as the premise for tragic drama or comedy.

One is a famous, published author, Boris Trigorin (Corey Stoll), as well as her son, Konstantin (Billy Howle), who fancies himself a «new» kind of playwright.

Chambers is a longtime actor, playwright and author, but he's probably best known as a respected child acting coach.

Nelsan Ellis (born c. 1978) is an award - winning American film and television actor and playwright, perhaps best known as Lafayette Reynolds on HBO's True Blood.

Highly acclaimed playwright and screenwriter David Mamet (The Untouchables, Glengarry Glen Ross) takes the helm as director for the seventh time, and while he's certainly done better as a writer, this is the film where he finally hits his stride as director.

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.

For anyone familiar with this playwright - director's work, it will come as no surprise that a very good - looking, buff guy will be outmatched by the lesbian on stage

The Chicago - based playwright's other work includes the Pulitzer - prize winning «August: Osage County» (the movie version is set to start filming in September) as well as «Superior Donuts» and «Three Sisters.»

Others along for the ride include Ed Helms as Keaton and Goodman's jobless son and father of three who is undergoing a divorce; Olivia Wilde as their unlucky - in - love playwright daughter who prefers to hang out at the airport bar tossing back dirty martinis than spending one extra minute with the folks; and Anthony Mackie, who provides diversity as well as subtlety as an reclusive police officer who catches Tomei in the act of stealing a brooch as a gift for her sister by hiding it in her mouth.

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.

I think he's probably the best American playwright today, as well as being a terrific actor.

Written and directed by playwright Biyi Bandele, it tells the story of two well - to - do Nigerian sisters (Thandie Newton and Anika Noni Rose), and the men they love (respectively, Ejiofor's radically - inclined professor and Joseph Mawle «s British ex-pat), as they're swept into the struggle for independence, and the ensuing Nigerian - Biafran War in the late 1960s.

She — as well as the lead actor Seth (Rhys Ifans), who saw Isabella leave Arnold's room that night, and the playwright Joshua (Will Forte), who has intentions of gentlemanly romance with Isabella — believes Isabella is perfect for the role.

He gives one of his best performances as A. A. Milne, an author and playwright troubled by his memories of World War I. Much to the frustration of his wife Daphne (Margot Robbie), Milne wants to write a book about the horrors of war, but can't quite find the words.

Sorkin, a playwright as well as a screenwriter, organizes «Steve Jobs» as a three - act backstage drama, beginning in 1984.

After establishing himself as one of America's best playwrights with «American Buffalo» and «Glengarry Glen Ross,» and writing the screenplays for «The Verdict» and «The Untouchables,» David Mamet made his film directing debut with the carefully constructed crime thriller «House of Games.»

She also makes no secret of relationships she has had with other men, as well as her present husband, playwright Arthur Miller.

Spartan It's no well - kept secret that David Mamet is my favorite playwright, and when he's penned and helmed a thriller as intense, twisty, and ambiguous as Spartan, you can most likely be sure I'll have something good to say about it.

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.

Resources include video interviews with the director, playwright and Meera Syal, as well as historical context and drama and english exercises.

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

As an experienced playwright, his contemporary passion play, The Turramurra Passion, has been performed over 80 times in Sydney, as well as elsewhere in Australia, Europe and the UAs an experienced playwright, his contemporary passion play, The Turramurra Passion, has been performed over 80 times in Sydney, as well as elsewhere in Australia, Europe and the Uas well as elsewhere in Australia, Europe and the Uas elsewhere in Australia, Europe and the US.

By the early 17th century the expression is clearly well in use as Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton writes «Whereby that old moth - eaten proverb is verified, which says, «one mans meate, is another man's poyson»» (1604).

New Jersey native Bill Mesce, Jr. is an author of fiction and non-fiction, as well as a screenwriter and playwright.

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).

A hugely successful entertainer, and playwright, Coward was directed to perform in Warsaw, Moscow, Helsinki as well as Paris and to mingle with VIPs to glean information.

You can expect major doublecrossing and bloodshed in this stellar espionage thriller — as well as real - life characters such as poet / playwright Bertolt «Bert» Brecht.

Alex Simmons is an award - winning freelance writer, comic book creator, and playwright, as well as an international teaching artist, guest speaker, and educational consultant.

Gay feels that Queen Victoria does not represent the century as well as the sexually audacious Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler.

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?»

Rankine, winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, is playwright and essayist as well as poet, and all three forms are present in her second, galvanizing «American Lyric,» following Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004).

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

Get lost in the magic of the theatre at a comedy, mystery or dramatic production from local as well as international playwrights and casts.

Finally, my degree in English will finally be put to good use as I type along to my favorite lines and phrases from the famous playwright's fantastic works.

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.

I've managed to review everything from video games to albums, conducted interviews with local playwrights and national best - selling authors, and wrote personal pieces about growing up as a member of the LGBTQIA + community in the Southern parts of the United States — and all before turning 18!

GP EXCLUSIVE: Read the Transcript as Jack Thompson Storms Out of Court GamePolitics A playwright couldn't have playwrote it better.

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.

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.

The catalogue includes essays by Jeffrey Grove and Olga Viso, as well as a work by Pulitzer Prize finalist, playwright, and feminist philosopher Susan Griffin and texts by Bill Arning, Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and Helen Molesworth, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, ICA, Boston.