playwriting
- noun
- /ˈpleɪˌraɪtɪŋ/
- Still, Galdos had tried his hand at playwriting, and the results turned out to be as exciting as they were controversial.
- playwriting residency
I thought, well, I'll major in that and take the playwriting courses and all of that.
- I thought, well, I'll major in that and take the playwriting courses and all of that.
- And that was the same kind of thinking in terms of going into playwriting or screen writing.
- He was a script doctor and a playwriting teacher.
- One of the things about being at the MFA program in playwriting, this was so it was still fairly, fairly early on for me at UCLA.
- And then it won this playwriting competition and got put on, and I was like, holy crap.
Examples
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In high school, Lockhart started writing, and in college fell into playwriting, which he took very seriously.
Academic text (2008) -
I studied playwriting with every teacher.
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A student interested in playwriting came to see me about his course of study.
Academic text (1996) -
" It was a class in playwriting," he said.
Fiction book (1992) -
I thought, well, I'll major in that and take the playwriting courses and all of that.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I created and run an MFA program in playwriting.
Blog text (12) -
Each year, YPI sponsors a nationwide playwriting competition and receives over eight hundred scripts from young writers, eighteen years old and under.
Academic text (1993) -
Linney's many awards include a 1992 Obie Award for sustained excellence in playwriting.
Fiction book (1999) -
We must reorder our priorities and set the development of self-esteem as our primary objective for bringing playwriting to K-12 classrooms.
Academic text (1993) -
A student interested in playwriting came to see me about his course of study.
Synonyms
The art of writing and making plays for the stage
The activity of writing and making plays for the theatre
To write the words and actions actors follow in films, plays or TV shows
Writing scripts for film, television, radio or theatre
How Developed
- Literature
- Jargon
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Playwriting combines play ('a performance or drama') and writing ('putting words on paper'), so it is the work of creating plays for the stage.