Playwriting: Painting Churches with One Shoe Off
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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
Tina Howe discusses the art and process of playwriting. A writer for the stage for more than thirty years, Howe's best known works include The Art of Dining, Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances, Approaching Zanzibar, One Shoe Off, and her most recent play, Pride's Crossing. Her plays have premiered at the Los Angeles Actors Theater, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Kennedy Center, The Old Globe Theater, Lincoln Center Theater and the Second Stage. Howe's work garnered an Obie Award for Distinguished Playwriting, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Coastal Disturbances received a Tony nomination for best play. Pride's Crossing was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize and won the 1998 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. This talk was taped March 25, 2003.
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