Sentence examples for playwright teaching from inspiring English sources

Eve (Sue Cremin) is an American playwright teaching in an unnamed Southeast Asian country ruled by a corrupt prime minister known as the Boss.

So the lessons to be learned from Thucydides are no different from the ones that the tragic playwrights teach: that the arrogant self can become the abject Other; that failure to bend, to negotiate, inevitably results in terrible fracture; that, because we are only human, our knowledge is merely knowingness, our vision partial rather than whole, and we must tread carefully in the world.

Still intending to be a playwright, he taught at Washington Square College of New York University.

The playwright Thornton Wilder taught French here in 1921 to 1928, since there were no openings in the English department.

The first play he ever acted in was Mr. Durang's "History of the American Film," and Mr. Durang and the playwright Marsha Norman taught Mr. Lindsay-Abaire at Juilliard, where he went after graduating from Sarah Lawrence.

"Paul Mercier [the playwright] was teaching in the same school as me at the time; he was writing these plays set in working-class Dublin, and they were brilliant.

And, though most playwrights also teach or work in television, she has managed to make a living, in San Francisco, by writing for the stage.

Feeling her way toward her new ambition, Lee looked up all the playwrights who were teaching at the Yale School of Drama, read their work, then contacted the one whose writing she considered the weirdest — Jeffrey M. Jones.

This semester, Divad Sanders, a poet from Newark, and Greg Holtz, a playwright from Montclair, taught a writing class at the center.

The Pulitzer Prize for drama was awarded to the playwright Donald Margulies, who teaches writing at Yale University, for "Dinner With Friends," about the vicissitudes of marriage in middle age.

Ten of the festival writers are members of the collective New Dramatists that offers grants and workspace to playwrights, and several teach at universities.