How to Give Your Characters Depth
Make it Sparkle Video with Don Zolidis
Professional Playwright
3:23 (runtime)
Director’s Notes
In this segment, Don discusses
What it means to write characters with honesty and how to do it.
What it takes to write characters that are layered and complex.
How to write characters that can be interpreted creatively by the actor or director. The importance of not writing too much.
It's not about the dialogue or the lines, but the circumstances that you put the characters in.
About Don Zolidis
Don Zolidis is a former high school and middle school theatre teacher, and is the most-produced playwright in American schools. His more than 100 published plays have been produced more than 11,500 times, appearing in every state and 63 countries. He holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in playwriting from the Actor’s Studio Program at the New School University.
Honors include the Princess Grace Award, multiple Edgerton New Play awards, and others. His work has appeared or been developed at the Purple Rose Theatre, the Phoenix Theatre, Victory Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, and many others.
His first novel, The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig, was published by Disney-Hyperion in October 2018.