Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally
Terrence McNallyis an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 November 1938
CitySt. Petersburg, FL
CountryUnited States of America
fodder money network supportive treated writers
'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about making your play, your script, not some network production. We're treated like playwrights, not like fodder for some machine.
people
With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.
oppression spoke standing time
It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.
certainty community theater york
The New York theater community is a place I know my way around in with some certainty,
written
This play was written for these 11 actors just as 'Master Class' was written for Zoe Caldwell, or 'Frankie and Johnny' was written for Kathy Bates,
callas
In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.
core embrace passion quite trying turn understand
If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.