Professional Development and Learning Opportunities

ICWP offers several ways for members to learn from each other, as well as experts in the field, about the craft and business of playwriting:

• FAQs about playwriting
• Links with extensive annotations to theatres and other websites of interest 
• Submissions and Opportunities with links and feeds of new play information
  
• Professional Development Grants for individual member playwrights (Suspended for 2009) (must be a registered member.  Click on Membership to apply)
  

---

Inspirational Quote:

"Most writers don't know that actors are never better than in the pauses or in the subtext. They give them too many words. In a play, words are parentheses to the silences. They're useful for the actors, but only that; they aren't the whole story. I always work by cutting down. If I didn't have people to stop me, I'd probably cut everything. I'd be down to 12 pages! I'm writing something now; I've got 50 pages and it already feels finished. Fifty isn't enough, so I'll go to 100, but it's very, very concentrated. I can't write long."

                            -- Yasmina Reza