James Elden's Playwright's Spotlight
Episodes
Playwright's Spotlight with Jonathan Cook
08 Aug 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode of Playwright's Spotlight, I speak to playwright Jonathan Cook about festivals, submission fees, and dealing with r...
Playwright's Spotlight with Brian Gene White
26 Jul 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode, I chat with playwright Brian Gene White about about the process of developing a play from start to world premiere using...
Playwright's Spotlight with Paul Braverman
12 Jul 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode, I speak to playwright Paul Braverman about developing your own local playwrights' guild, obstacles in playwriting,...
Playwright's Spotlight with Steven Young
28 Jun 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode, I speak with playwright Steven Young to discuss the anatomy of a monologue, scene, 10 minute play, one-act play, three-...
Playwright's Spotlight with Joe Janes
14 Jun 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode, I speak with playwright Joe Janes about the craft of sketch and stand-up comedy. We cover a lot of turf including acade...
Playwright's Spotlight with Michael Gordon Shapiro
31 May 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode, I speak to musical theatre composer and lyricist Michael Gordon Shapiro. Michael's insight into the genre is expan...
Playwright's Spotlight with Charles Robertson
17 May 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode, I speak to playwright Charles Robertson. We discuss writing a one-person show for someone else, self-producing, and the...
Playwright's Spotlight with Kimberly Faye Greenberg
03 May 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode, I talk with Kimberly Faye Greenberg about developing, staging, and marketing a one-person biographical show around an h...
Playwright's Spotlight with Gregory Crafts
19 Apr 2022
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Send us a textIf there's a Playwright's Spotlight episode that encompasses all aspects of theatre that not only playwrights could benefit fr...
Playwright's Spotlight with Laura King
05 Apr 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode, I speak to playwright Laura King about the benefits of a dramaturge and taking the MFA path to becoming a playwright. W...
Playwright's Spotlight with Nicky Silver
22 Mar 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode, I speak with Broadway playwright Nicky Silver about the joy of making something, finding success after 30, and the hind...
Playwright's Spotlight with Dramatists Guild's Emmanuel Wilson
08 Mar 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode, James speaks with Executive Director for Creative Affairs and Membership of the Dramatists Guild - Emmanuel Wilson. The...
Playwright's Spotlight with Arthur M. Jolly
22 Feb 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode, James speaks to playwright Arthur M. Jolly about the five basic elements of drama and human relationships as well as th...
Playwright's Spotlight with Christopher Flowers
08 Feb 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode of Playwright's Spotlight, James interviews playwright Christopher Flowers. Chris discusses the accountability that...
Playwright's Spotlight featuring Susan Goodell
25 Jan 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode, James Elden talks to playwright Susan Goodell about learning from the rehearsal process, exercises in playwriting, trus...
Playwright's Spotlight featuring Hope Thompson
11 Jan 2022
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Send us a textHope Thompson is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre's Feature Writing Program and UBC's Creative Writing MFA program. She ...
Playwright's Spotlight featuring Adam Hunter Howard
28 Dec 2021
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Send us a textAdam Hunter Howard is a playwright, mentor, guest director and dean at Harvard-Westlake Upper School in North Hollywood, California. We ...
Playwright's Spotlight featuring Jeff Pearce
14 Dec 2021
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Send us a textJeff Pearce is a journalist, novelist, non-fiction, and erotica writer who later transitioned into playwriting. In this episode, we disc...
Playwright's Spotlight featuring Daniel Guyton
30 Nov 2021
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Send us a textPlaywright Daniel Guyton stops by to discuss competitions, publishing and dead bodies. In this episode, we also span the spectrum of pla...
Playwright's Spotlight featuring David-Matthew Barnes
16 Nov 2021
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Send us a textPlaywright David-Matthew Barnes and I talk about character, names, collaboration, rejection and perseverance, and the business of playwr...
Playwright's Spotlight featuring April Littlejohn
02 Nov 2021
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Send us a textApril Littlejohn is a playwright, producer, director and actor. Her productions of L.A. Horror Stories under her theatre company, Fuzzy ...
Playwright's Spotlight Introductory Episode
26 Oct 2021
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Send us a textActor, Director, Producer, Writer, and Host James Elden talks about his origins into the realm of live theatre and his path forward as w...