Welcome to "Playwright Spotlight" — your exclusive backstage pass to the creative minds crafting the incredible plays featured in our Theatrefolk catalogue. Discover the magic, quirks, and genius of the playwrights who help bring the stage to life. Let's meet one of these exceptional playwrights who offers the chance for your student performers to shine in their spotlight.
My need as a high school theatre to have scripts that students find challenging.
Listen to the students. How they walk, talk and exist matters when writing for them.
To keep it appropriate and have boundaries without sugar coating. Students see through sugar coating every time.
Truth; the possibility to be better; the ability to face the scary. Also Hope. Change is possible if we commit to it.
I workshop drafts with students. They seem to like it a lot.
The first time we did Clowns With Guns: A Vaudeville at the Montana Thespian Festival. The shock and awe was so thick at the end that you could cut it with a knife.
COMMUNICATE! Make sure you communicate with Admin, parents & students so there are no surprises. Also, listen to your theatre kids. They are more creative than you know.
Whatever one I'm writing currently.
I like to push buttons. I strive to achieve messages through absurdity sometimes.
by Lindsay Price
81 exercises that can be used to get students in the habit of writing on a regular basis.
by Lindsay Price
You’ve chosen to write a play for your students! Where do you start?
Use these 4 Playwriting drama teaching resources to make playwriting possible with your students. Great for warm-ups, prompts, writer's block and more!