Playwrights on Television
Conversations with Dramatists

Playwrights on Television features interviews with writers of award-winning stage plays and celebrated television shows reflecting on the successes and challenges of being a playwright in the post-network television era.

In these conversations, eighteen dramatists consider their professional paths and creative choices, from training and education to thoughts on craft and technique, and discuss a range of issues relevant to the development of dramatic writing today. Theatergoers and TV aficionados alike will find new perspectives on the journeys traveled by some of their favorite plays and series, such as The Affair, The Americans, Boardwalk Empire, GLOW, House of Cards, Insecure, Mad Men, Orange Is the New Black, Shameless, She?s Gotta Have It, Vida, and The West Wing.

A valuable resource for aspiring stage and television writers, as well as theater and media scholars investigating the works of these dramatists, Playwrights on Television sheds light on the role of the contemporary playwright in the latest Golden Age of television.

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Naming 1. Tanya Barfield 2. Jocelyn Bioh 3. Sheila Callaghan 4. Kristoffer Diaz 5. Bash Doran 6. Laura Eason 7. Madeleine George 8. Jason Grote 9. Jordan Harrison 10. David Henry Hwang 11. MJ Kaufman 12. Itamar Moses 13. Janine Nabers 14. Christopher Oscar Peña 15. Adam Rapp 16. Tanya Saracho 17. Diana Son 18. Tracey Scott Wilson Afterword: Renaming Select Bibliography Index

Hillary Miller is a theater historian and the author of Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York (2016). She is an assistant professor of English at Queens College, CUNY.