Stephen Gregg
"Withhold your play's secrets. Once they're revealed, you lose tension. The air goes out of the scenes. Delay. Delay. Delay."
— Stephen Gregg
"As a playwright, your primary responsibility is to not bore your audience. It's not to improve them. This is already an arrogant art form."
— Stephen Gregg
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"The fun of most plays is seeing actors react to each other."
— Stephen Gregg
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"When writing your comedy, remember ... the story is way more important than the jokes."
— Stephen Gregg
"Sometimes inspiration strikes and we sit down to write. But a writer knows the reverse is more common. We start to write and the ideas come."
— Stephen Gregg
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"Skip the dull set up. The audience craves the compelling parts, even likes the quick mental work of filling in the gaps."
— Stephen Gregg
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"If your character doesn't have a goal, she's just a bunch of your words deceptively held together by an actor."
— Stephen Gregg
"First rule of writing a play (or acting, lighting design, directing): Make a choice. You can always change it later."
— Stephen Gregg
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"Conflict is all. Watching combat—dialogue back and forth—transfixes an audience like a tennis match. They won't have time to get bored."
— Stephen Gregg
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