Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
About Me
A course by Ronán Noone , Playwright, Screenwriter, and Teacher
About the video: About Me
Overview
“It is never easy trying to become your true self, to discover your talents or to find the right direction. I left my home country, Ireland, to do that and went to America. It is about being compelled to improve, to challenge and surround yourself with the right resources and people. ”
In this video lesson Ronán Noone addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage. Master playwriting fundamentals: create powerful plots, develop characters, and learn storytelling techniques for stage and screen.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hi. My name is Ronan Noon and welcome to my Domestika course. I'm clear writing. I wanted to write from a very young age. And I remember every time I went to the dentist, that they would ask me, What do you want to do? so they could distract me from the needles. And I would always say, a journalist. I didn't understand that you could call yourself a writer without having an occupation to label it. So I studied journalism in university in Galway in Ireland. I wrote for local newspapers in Galway and Mayo, like the Connacht Tribune and the Western People. but I was told that my pieces were de...”
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Course summary for: Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
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Ronán Noone
A course by Ronán Noone
Ronán Noone is a playwright, screenwriter, and teacher. After graduating with a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism, he started working for various newspapers in his native Ireland. With time, Ronán realized that although he had a passion for storytelling, journalism wasn’t his medium. He started writing plays and eventually immigrated to the U.S. to study with Nobel laureate Derek Walcott at Boston University.
His plays have been on stages in Spain, Ireland, Canada, Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, London, UK, India, and the U.S. Ronán has won a national award for playwriting from the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and the prestigious Boston, Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Script, including three best new play awards from the Independent Reviewers of New England.
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