Lee Blesssing on the role of the playwright

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"A playwright...first and foremost has to compel people."

In this Power of Theater podcast, part of the Kennedy Center Education Department's American College Theater Festival's summer intensive for playwrights, playwright Lee Blessing discusses the difference between writing for the theater and writing for television and film. For more information on the American College Theater Festival, visit www.kennedy-center.org/education/actf/.

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