How I Did It

How I Did It (Establishing a Playwriting Career). Applause Acting Series. Softcover. 256 pages. Published by Applause Books.

For this book, Lawrence Harbison has interviewed successful playwrights who have developed relationships with theaters that regularly produce their plays, have had at least one major New York production, have their plays published by a licensor such as Dramatists Play Service or Samuel French, have received commissions, and have an agent. Harbison asks each of them the same question: How did you do it? Featuring interviews with Bruce Norris, Lynn Nottage, J. T. Rogers, Stephen Belber, Adam Bock, John Cariani, Rinne Groff, Sheila Callaghan, Cori Thomas, Rajiv Joseph, Greg Kotis, Gina Gionfriddo, Itamar Moses, Eric Coble, Jessica Dickey, Lloyd Suh, Sharr White, Kirsten Greenidge, David Auburn, and Bekah Brunstetter, and an introduction by Theresa Rebeck, How I Did It: Establishing a Playwriting Career will be of great interest to playwrights daunted by the extremely difficult task of getting their work produced, as well as to playwriting students.