Bess Wohl is a playwright, screenwriter, and actress whose plays include Small Mouth Sounds, and the book for the musical Pretty Filthy with composer/lyricist Michael Friedman and The Civilians. Her plays have been produced in numerous venues in New York City and around the United States. Pretty Filthy, which ran Off-Broadway from January 2015 to March 1, 2015, was nominated for the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Musical and the 2015 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Musical. Small Mouth Sounds premiered Off-Broadway at Ars Nova in 2015 to wide critical acclaim. The play also was produced in 2016 at the Off-Broadway Signature Theatre.
Listen to Bess and I talk about her coming of age as a playwright and . .
- Why she gave up a successful acting career to pursue writing, and how her acting skills help her be a better writer.
- How she manages rewriting under the pressure of previews.
- What she thinks about one of her shows getting on Broadway . . . and whether or not she thinks about that when she writes.
- Her process of writing and how her schedule might help yours.
- What her mentors told her when she was getting started, and what she now tells new writers.
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