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Sweet on Playwriting

Jeffrey Sweet Playwriting Tips

Up your playwriting skills or remind yourself of writing tools you may have forgotten!  These short videos from Jeffrey Sweet will bring craft to your fingertips.​​

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1. Lehman Engel, Viola Spolin and Paul Sills

4. What’s Hiding in
the Jungle

7. The Transformation of
an Object

10. Event Structured Plays and Movies

13. Appetite vs. Responsibility

2. Playwriting is Not a Literary Activity

5. The Power of the Unspoken Word


8. Other Negotiations


11. Character Structure

14. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe and Exposition?

3. The Present Tense

6. Negotiating over an Object


9. Write What You Know

12. Professional vs.
Personal

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