How to Make Your Writing Connect with an Audience
Make it Sparkle Video with Don Zolidis
Professional Playwright and Theatre Educator
5:12 (runtime)
Director’s Notes
In this segment, Don discusses
Figuring out the Dramatic question of your writing. What does the audience need to know before they go home.
Not writing too much. Once the question is answered the story is over.
Only keep things that further the story, even if it's really funny or good.
How experience helps as a writer. Writing your 100th play is easier than your 1st.
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.