6 Quotes & Sayings By Theresa Rebeck

Theresa Rebeck is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays have been produced in the USA, Canada, and the UK, and her work has appeared on Broadway and on TV. She is the recipient of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship (fellowship winner: Bess Wohl), as well as the Dramatists Guild Literary Award (2011) and two Obie Awards (2010). Theresa had a ten-year theatre career as an actor, director and dancer before turning to writing Read more

She holds a master's degree from Columbia University Teachers College and a master's in playwriting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

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You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you. Theresa Rebeck
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Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams. Theresa Rebeck
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It's one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if you're younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that then you'll be happy. Theresa Rebeck
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I remember when I was at Brandeis, Geoffrey Wolff, he was a great fiction-writing teacher. He was the writer-in-residence, and for those of us who wanted to be writers, you were so excited to be in the same hallway as him. Theresa Rebeck
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The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue. Theresa Rebeck