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I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

Beth Henley

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Community Theatre

I love writing for the screen.
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Screens
Plays are so much more special if they’ve never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
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I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn’t a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don’t have to be very smart.

BETH HENLEY

But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn’t a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don’t have to be very smart.
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In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

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In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
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I’m very into the first production of the show.

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I’m very into the first production of the show.
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Firsts Production
That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you’ll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
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Inclination
I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.
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Phones Talking
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
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My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
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Louisiana Lucky
And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.

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And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.
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Creating
It’s really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don’t get in trouble.

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It’s really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don’t get in trouble.
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It’s called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn’t realize what a rage I was in.
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Sister Winter Years
Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

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Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
BETH HENLEY
But here’s the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
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Copyright Novelists Poets
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
BETH HENLEY

Community Theatre

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

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