How To Playwright

How To Playwright

By Lauren GundersonArtsPerforming Arts
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How To Playwright episodes

  • Character as Contrast, Compliment, Battle

    Let's talk about writing and developing and deepening characters in your plays. We explore main characters as well as side/supporting characters, and how the web of characters are kept taut through battle, contrast and compliment.

    48 min
  • Main Characters: Fervent, Urgent, Flawed

    A discussion of how to create compelling, energetic main characters that can fuel a great play with fervent and urgent wants, needs, complexities, and antagonistic forces.


    Hosted by Lauren M. Gunderson

    Original intro music by Joriah Kwamé

    54 min
  • First Read: What We Learn From A Very First Reading

    I take you with me before and after my favorite moment in any new play's life: the very first table reading of a never-before-heard new play. What do I listen for, what can writers learn from hearing it out loud for the first time, what good work comes out of this bountiful moment in development.

    Let's discuss!

    Thanks for listening!


    Hosted by Lauren Gunderson

    Original intro music by Joriah Kwamé

    25 min
  • Dramatic Structure: Beginning, Midpoint, Ending

    We dive right into a simplified discussion of ye olde dramatic structure, covering the general concepts of beginning/midpoint/ending in playwriting. We talk dramatic structure as begin akin to the scientific method, and how plays are "thought experiments."

    As usual I rant on "Hamlet," love stories, and architecture metaphors.


    Enjoy! and thanks for listening.


    Intro music by Joriah Kwamé.

    55 min
  • Prologue: Write or Wright?

    Welcome! This is the first outing for "How To Playwright," in which I tell you a little of the why and the what of this podcast, as well as the "who is this for." To playwrite or playwright?

    Host: Lauren M. Gunderson

    Original theme music by the amazing Joriah Kwamé

    Watch the original pandemic playwrighting sessions and interviews here: https://www.facebook.com/LaurenGundersonPlaywright/videos


    26 min

About How To Playwright

From the publisher's feed

Hosted by award-winning playwright Lauren M. Gunderson (author of I and You, Silent Sky, The Book of Will and fifteen other published plays and musicals), How to Playwright is an exuberant long form discussion of the craft, creativity and joy of playwriting and theatre-making spanning the practical to the philosophical, the strategic to the aesthetic.