Sentences with phrase «worked as a playwright»

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.

A film graduate (M.F.A. in Directing from the American Film Institute) who to this point, has had more experience working as a playwright, Bill Oliver has moved feature film into the forefront with his directorial debut.

She moved back to the Bay Area with her partner and four - year - old daughter to continue her work as a playwright and teacher.

After a time working as a playwright and a play reader for the Royal Court Theatre in London, he returned to Nigeria, where he taught in the Universities of Lagos, Ibadan, and Ife (becoming...

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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.»

As a playwright, Shakespeare responds in any given work to many immediate literary, economic, cultural, and theatrical exigencies that have nothing to do with his personal beliefs.

As is often the way with brainy, moody teenagers, I had come to believe in the gospel according to Jack Kerouac, Dizzy Gillespie, and a hodgepodge of Japanese poets, absurdist playwrights, and existentialist philosophers whose works I'd found on adjacent shelves on the second floor of the public library.

Like Maisano and Pitcher, Usher sees the Jupiter scene in Cymbeline as a response to Galileo's discovery — but he takes «Shakespearian science» much further, arguing that examples of the playwright's scientific knowledge can be found in works spanning his entire career.

Marivaux's stories — at least in my mind — never really arise as more than a mere trifle, making them pale in comparison to the works of other classic playwrights like Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Molière.

After graduating high school, he worked on a career as a playwright, only to be advised to be an actor by his professors.

As a playwright (Red / Rouge), Laura Anne Harris has addressed sex work in her plays, which has made her interviews with filmmakers addressing the topic particularly fruitful.

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.

Indeed, it does feel less like the work of a vastly experienced filmmaker and more like the first draft of a novice playwright such as Mickey himself.

I know him mostly as a playwright, what was it like working with him?

In Wonder Wheel, four peoples» lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny's rough - hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty's long - estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartment.

The great American playwright August Wilson (1945 - 2005) may no longer be physically of this world, but his work, which discusses issues of race and family, among other topics, very much lives on, as relevant as ever.

«Nothing about Greta seemed inexperienced for a first - time director,» Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright and actor who plays Lady Bird's tenderhearted father, told V.F. «The work she's done in front of the camera and as a writer has really prepared her for this moment.

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.»

Wonder Wheel tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny (Kate Winslet), a melancholy, emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty (Jim Belushi), Ginny's rough - hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey (Justin Timberlake), a handsome young life - guard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina (Juno Temple), Humpty's long - estranged daughter, who is now...

He served as resident director for a theatre company in North Hollywood and Hollywood between 2005 - 2008, while developing his own theater company, Askew Theatre Company, focusing on workshops of new works from emerging Los Angeles playwrights.

The most sympathetic reading of Wonder Wheel is that it's deliberately staged as the work of a novice playwright, populated with overdrawn characters and overheated situations.

According to him, while Shakespeare (played by Rafe Spall) was gracing the stage in playwright Ben Johnson's (Sebastian Armesto) works, the latter was approached by Edward de Vere (Rhys Ifans), The Earl of Oxford, who desperately searched for someone to publish his works under, as his status as royalty and the perception that the art scene was a breeding ground for evil required strict anonymity.

After arresting work as an aimless skinhead in Mike Leigh's Meantime, he delivered two of the most humane, indelible performances of that decade, both as doomed real - life figures: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, one of the most searching films in all of British cinema, and the impish playwright Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (directed by Frears and written by Alan Bennett).

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.

Before writing American Dervish, I worked as a screenwriter and playwright, and most of my work has dealt with Muslim - American identity, the unique challenges of identifying oneself (or being identified by others) primarily by a religious faith and, in Islam's case, by a faith that has often seen itself (and been seen by others) as «opposed» to the West.

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.

By the age of thirty, he had graduated from university in Rwanda and worked as a journalist and radio presenter, a playwright, and a theatre director.

As an author, playwright, college English assistant professor, and educational consultant, Melda Beaty's work embraces social consciousness as a key themAs an author, playwright, college English assistant professor, and educational consultant, Melda Beaty's work embraces social consciousness as a key themas a key theme.

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.

Several years ago, the iconic French author, poet, playwright and philosopher Hélène Cixous gave Grant one of her books, Philippines, as a source for imagery and entreated the artist to make work about the concepts present in the text.

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.

In addition to presenting many original productions written by its members, as well as by other playwrights, artists, and musicians, Mabou Mines is considered one of the foremost interpreters of Samuel Beckett's work.

In addition to her work as a visual artist, Drexler is also an accomplished novelist and playwright.

Influenced by literature and theatre, Byrne's work consistently references a range of sources, from popular magazines of the recent past to iconic Modernist playwrights such as Brecht, Beckett, and Sartre.

Phil Shaw will be represented by his hyperreal bookshelf prints, with examples from his London Underground series, as well as his new Shakespeare work, All the World's A Stage, which is also on display at The Globe over the Summer as part of the 400th anniversary celebrations of the playwright's death.

Leading up to the opening and concurrent with the development of the trading algorithm, Goldin + Senneby have been working with playwright James McAleavey, who has been scripting a speculative scene for the gallery, to be publicly rehearsed for as long as the trading budget lasts.

Has worked with author, speaker, and playwright Jerri Lynn Speaks as personal assistant, ghost writer, and proofreader.