Send us a text In this episode, James Elden talks to playwright Susan Goodell about learning from the rehearsal process, exercises in playwriting, trusting the process, finding opportunities on the net, being a resident playwright, getting published, and strategies on how to keep your work from being stolen in the modern era. Susan Goodell is the author of the full length plays Heels Over Head and Hope Throws Her Heart Away and numerous one-acts all of which of played across the U.S. She's been ...
Jan 25, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Send us a text Hope Thompson is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre's Feature Writing Program and UBC's Creative Writing MFA program. She writes for stage, film, and television and her work explores the queer experience through history and genre. She's written on two seasons of CBC's Baroness Von Sketch Show, teaches screenwriting and co-hosts the crime fiction reading series Noir @ The Bar. In this episode of Playwright's Spotlight Hope and I discuss gender roles within genres, finding repre...
Jan 11, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Send us a text Adam Hunter Howard is a playwright, mentor, guest director and dean at Harvard-Westlake Upper School in North Hollywood, California. We have worked together as costars in our the first two full-length plays produced by Punk Monkey Productions, Steven Dietz' Private Eyes and The Maiden Prayer by Nicky Silver, whose poster can be seen in the background of Adam's shots. In this episode, we discuss working with young/beginning playwrights, structure, privilege, Aristotle's Poetics, su...
Dec 28, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Send us a text Jeff Pearce is a journalist, novelist, non-fiction, and erotica writer who later transitioned into playwriting. In this episode, we discuss how each form benefits the other in the creative world, the obstacles of both crafts to achieve longevity, and how life imitated art with the tragic shooting by Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust . To watch the video format of this podcast visit - https://youtu.be/rn_yCHXCpf8 Links and websites mentioned in this episode – Jeff Pearce - Twitter – ...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Send us a text Playwright Daniel Guyton stops by to discuss competitions, publishing and dead bodies. In this episode, we also span the spectrum of playwriting including - compensation, dialogue, feedback and criticism, the future of remote productions, and the pitfalls of cinematic fashion in the playwriting medium. Daniel Guyton has been a playwright for well over 20 years having won many awards, nationally and internationally, and also teaches playwriting at Georgia State University. To view ...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send us a text Playwright David-Matthew Barnes and I talk about character, names, collaboration, rejection and perseverance, and the business of playwriting - and that's just scratching the surface. David-Matthew Barnes has been writing plays for over 25 years and has been produced internationally and featured in multiple publications. You can find David-Matthews plays and novels at the link below - https://www.amazon.com/David-Matthew-Barnes/e/B003YJ87IG?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1637036445...
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Send us a text April Littlejohn is a playwright, producer, director and actor. Her productions of L.A. Horror Stories under her theatre company, Fuzzy Bottom, has won awards at the Valley Theatre Awards in North Hollywood, and her plays have been produced in Los Angeles, Valdez, Alaska and in other cities across the country. In this episode, we discuss whether playwrights should produce their own work and where other opportunities for production can be found. April's book Producing Theatre on Mi...
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Send us a text Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, and Host James Elden talks about his origins into the realm of live theatre and his path forward as well as his visions of the Playwrights' Spotlight. For more information about James Elden and his production company, festivals, and playwriting services, please visit the following websites - www.punkmonkeyproductions.com www.lacpfest.com Support the show...
Oct 26, 2021•18 min0
