Barnard Women Share Their Passion for The Writing Life
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AS SEEN AND HEARD AT... GREAT WRITERS AT BARNARD
Writing for Stage and Screen
Jeanine Tesori '83
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“The fact that there had never been a show orchestrated by a woman on Broadway pissed me off, so I did something about it.”
“When you’re in a room with George Wolfe and Tony Kushner, you have got to open your mouth.”
“To make a living composing, you have to balance jobs like Tony Kushner’s Caroline, Or Change with Dreamworks’ Shrek, The Musical.”
—Jeanine Tesori ‘83, Three-time Tony Award-winning writer/composer – for “Caroline, or Change,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” and “Twelfth Night” |
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“I guess what we all do in the theater is collaborate. Otherwise, we’d all be novelists.”
—Jeanine Tesori ‘83
“Playwriting is not that private perfection you achieve if you’re lucky. It’s a map you give the actors and director, saying this is where I think the caves are, now you guys go see if I’m right?”
—Ellen McLaughlin, English Department Faculty and playwright
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"You have two choices as a screenwriter: you can be a director or you can be angry."
—Delia Ephron ’66, novelist and screenwriter whose credits include Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail
“No one ever reads what we [screenwriters] write. We’re going to rise and fall by the interpretations of what we write.”
—Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal ’66, Golden Globe-winning screenwriter of Running on Empty |
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“In Hollywood, they’re really not used to critically thinking reporters. I brought my own reporting standards from the regular world there. Harvey Weinstein will call every time and try to get you fired.
—Sharon Waxman ’85, Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times
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Photos by Diane Bondareff |
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