Unlimited Playwriting
- Episodes
- 18
- Released
- monthly
- Latest episode
- Nov 12, 2026
About the podcast
Lectures on playwriting with exercises, examples, and interviews.
Episodes 18
Unlimited Playwriting Part Eighteen: Beginning, Middle, End
The idea of having a beginning, middle, and end doesn't apply just to your whole play, but to individual elements.
Unlimited Playwriting Part Seventeen: Facing the Blank Page
If you panic at facing the blank page, here's some quick advice.
Unlimited Playwriting Part Sixteen: Must You Shrink Your Play?
There are two criticisms often heard in workshops: "You have too many locations" and "You should cut that character." Both of these comments result in asking you to shrink your play. In this episode I discuss …
Show notes
There are two criticisms often heard in workshops: "You have too many locations" and "You should cut that character." Both of these comments result in asking you to shrink your play. In this episode I discuss ways of looking at both those criticisms, and how some real plays handled these issues.
Unlimited Playwriting Part Fourteen: Action in the Weir
Amy Crider analyzes Conor McPherson's play The Weir to talk about what is meant by action.
Unlimited Playwriting Episode Thirteen: Can Playwriting Be Taught? Plus My David Mamet Story
Award-winning playwright Amy Crider discusses whether playwriting can be taught, and tells an anecdote about meeting David Mamet when she was in college.
Unlimited Playwriting Part Twelve: The Actor
When you write a play, you're writing for actors. In this episode, Amy interviews Chicago actor Jeff Broitman about what he looks for in a role and a play.
Unlimited Playwriting Part Eleven: What is Action?
To answer the question What is Action? Amy Crider analyzes the play Red, by John Logan.
Unlimited Playwriting Part Ten: Developing an Object
If you're struggling to develop your play, here's an example of how I developed a specific object in the story.
Unlimited Playwriting Part Nine: Are Critics Biased Against Women Playwrights?
Amy Crider shares her opinion about why there might be bias against women playwrights.
Unlimited Playwriting Part Eight: Characters' Needs and Knowledge
What do the characters need and what do they know?
Unlimited Playwriting Part Six: Sympathetic Characters
Sympathetic Characters: what makes them sympathetic, and does it matter?
Unlimited Playwriting Part Five: a Second City Exercise
A fun exercise from Second City featuring micro plays, with guest actor Pete Blatchford.
Unlimited Playwriting Part Four: History Plays
Historical figures often grab your imagination. Here's a way of thinking about how to put them on stage. Three examples discussed are: Master Class by Terrence McNally, Freud's Last Session by Mark St. Germain …
Show notes
Historical figures often grab your imagination. Here's a way of thinking about how to put them on stage. Three examples discussed are: Master Class by Terrence McNally, Freud's Last Session by Mark St. Germain, and Copenhagen by Michael Freyn.
Unlimited Playwriting Part Three: Great Expectations
Playwriting advice from award-winning writer Amy Crider. Today's topic: Audience Expectations.
Unlimited Playwriting Part Two: Conflict
Today's topic: Conflict. A new way of thinking about it, not as argument or opposition, but as the "conflicting image."
Unlimited Playwriting Part One: The First Questions
The first questions to ask yourself about your play.
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