013: Bella Poynton - Playwright, director, actor

What this episode covers

Bella Poynton is a playwright, director, actor, and theatre scholar. She’s the director of the Playwrights’ Wing at First Look Buffalo Theatre Company in Buffalo, NY; literary manager for Post-Industrial Productions and is also the director of Queen City Playwrights, Buffalo’s new play development workshop for career playwrights in Western New York. Her plays have been featured in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019, The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019, and The Weirdest Plays of 2020. We chat about conceptualizing speculative (but specifically sci-fi/fantasy) plays for the stage, along with the expectations of what a play should be; impossible stage directions and how they’re handled; Star Wars; some straight up theatre theory; and what you can do to get started writing plays if you’ve never written one. See more of her work at http://www.bellapoynton.com/. Find my work at www.austinRwilson.com and also on Medium.com/shibboieth and https://austinrwilson.medium.com/. I have two stories in Love Me, Love Me Not a collection of dark love stories out from Black Hare Press, available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLJWXHVC. You can also listen to this and recent Ledger episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@austinRwilson/videos. Thank you for listening and thank you to Bella for coming on! Please rate, review, and share the show!