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Screenwriters -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3762 Collections and/or Records:

Playbill and poster

 File — Box 1, Folder: 9
Series Description From the Series:

Drafts, manuscripts, and typescripts of Hauptman’s plays, teleplay, screenplays, short stories, poetry, novel, articles and criticism are located in this series. Titles under each genre are filed alphabetically. Related correspondence, reviews, clippings, publicity, and playbills are filed after the draft or script for each title.

Dates: 1972-1986, undated

Playbill and publicity from Queensland Theater production, April 1996

 File — Box 7, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series:

The series for Plays is the largest of Shepard’s works and includes notes, annotated typescripts, playbills, programs, correspondence, sound recordings, rehearsal schedules, reviews, and publicity. This series is notable in that Shepard meticulously identified each annotated draft with the date and place (by city and state) of each revision, and there tend to be multiple drafts of each work represented.

Dates: April 1996

Playbill, Death of a Salesman, April 1984

 File — Box 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The smallest of the series, it consists of papers regarding Italy (1940s), information on a computer, clippings from the Bakker scandal (1987), and a playbill from Death of a Salesman.

Dates: April 1984

Playbill for Manhattan Theater Club production, January 1998

 File — Box 9, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series:

The series for Plays is the largest of Shepard’s works and includes notes, annotated typescripts, playbills, programs, correspondence, sound recordings, rehearsal schedules, reviews, and publicity. This series is notable in that Shepard meticulously identified each annotated draft with the date and place (by city and state) of each revision, and there tend to be multiple drafts of each work represented.

Dates: January 1998

Playbill from American Place Theater production, April 1994

 File — Box 6, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series:

The series for Plays is the largest of Shepard’s works and includes notes, annotated typescripts, playbills, programs, correspondence, sound recordings, rehearsal schedules, reviews, and publicity. This series is notable in that Shepard meticulously identified each annotated draft with the date and place (by city and state) of each revision, and there tend to be multiple drafts of each work represented.

Dates: April 1994

Playbill from Le Theatre National de Belgique signed by Shepard, 1985

 File — Box 3, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series:

The series for Plays is the largest of Shepard’s works and includes notes, annotated typescripts, playbills, programs, correspondence, sound recordings, rehearsal schedules, reviews, and publicity. This series is notable in that Shepard meticulously identified each annotated draft with the date and place (by city and state) of each revision, and there tend to be multiple drafts of each work represented.

Dates: 1985

Playbills

 File — Box 1, Folder: 5
Series Description From the Series:

Drafts, manuscripts, and typescripts of Hauptman’s plays, teleplay, screenplays, short stories, poetry, novel, articles and criticism are located in this series. Titles under each genre are filed alphabetically. Related correspondence, reviews, clippings, publicity, and playbills are filed after the draft or script for each title.

Dates: 1972-1986, undated

Playbills (2), Brooks Atkinson Theater, New York, April-May, 1996

 File — Box 2, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series:

The series for Plays is the largest of Shepard’s works and includes notes, annotated typescripts, playbills, programs, correspondence, sound recordings, rehearsal schedules, reviews, and publicity. This series is notable in that Shepard meticulously identified each annotated draft with the date and place (by city and state) of each revision, and there tend to be multiple drafts of each work represented.

Dates: April-May, 1996

Plays, 1972-1986, undated

 Sub-Series
Series Description From the Series:

Drafts, manuscripts, and typescripts of Hauptman’s plays, teleplay, screenplays, short stories, poetry, novel, articles and criticism are located in this series. Titles under each genre are filed alphabetically. Related correspondence, reviews, clippings, publicity, and playbills are filed after the draft or script for each title.

Dates: 1972-1986, undated

Plays, 1980-1997, undated

 Series
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers of filmmaker and writer Severo Perez span 1972-2010 and document his career in film and television, and as a writer. The collection is arranged into six series: 1) Film; 2) Television; 3) Plays; 4) Books; 5) The National Endowment for the Humanities; and 6) Audio and Video Materials. Perez also donated an extensive amount of audiovisual material which includes film reels and prints for …and the earth did not swallow him as well as many of...
Dates: 1980-1997, undated

Plays, 1984

 Series
Series Description

This series includes notes, drafts, and correspondence for a play titled Boot (early working title, “Blown Away: A Play in Two Acts.”) The play takes place in a bunker in Vietnam and focuses on three marines: Crockett, Dupree, and Mills, joined by a new recruit they nickname “Boot.” The plot follows the young men as they try to cope with the realities of war.

Dates: 1984

Plays, 1982-1999

 Series
Series Description

The series for Plays is the largest of Shepard’s works and includes notes, annotated typescripts, playbills, programs, correspondence, sound recordings, rehearsal schedules, reviews, and publicity. This series is notable in that Shepard meticulously identified each annotated draft with the date and place (by city and state) of each revision, and there tend to be multiple drafts of each work represented.

Dates: 1982-1999

Plaza de la Raza articles, April 18, 1987

 File — Box 30, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers of filmmaker and writer Severo Perez span 1972-2010 and document his career in film and television, and as a writer. The collection is arranged into six series: 1) Film; 2) Television; 3) Plays; 4) Books; 5) The National Endowment for the Humanities; and 6) Audio and Video Materials. Perez also donated an extensive amount of audiovisual material which includes film reels and prints for …and the earth did not swallow him as well as many of...
Dates: April 18, 1987

Plaza de la Raza clippings

 File — Box 30, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers of filmmaker and writer Severo Perez span 1972-2010 and document his career in film and television, and as a writer. The collection is arranged into six series: 1) Film; 2) Television; 3) Plays; 4) Books; 5) The National Endowment for the Humanities; and 6) Audio and Video Materials. Perez also donated an extensive amount of audiovisual material which includes film reels and prints for …and the earth did not swallow him as well as many of...
Dates: 1987

Plaza de la Raza (Perez directed a film series there), 1987

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers of filmmaker and writer Severo Perez span 1972-2010 and document his career in film and television, and as a writer. The collection is arranged into six series: 1) Film; 2) Television; 3) Plays; 4) Books; 5) The National Endowment for the Humanities; and 6) Audio and Video Materials. Perez also donated an extensive amount of audiovisual material which includes film reels and prints for …and the earth did not swallow him as well as many of...
Dates: 1987

Plum Creek, Part I

 Sub-subseries
Description From the Sub-Series:

6 part series, five of which aired August 1993 on CBS-TV.

Dates: 1973 - 1995

Poetry, undated

 Sub-Series
Series Description From the Series:

Drafts, manuscripts, and typescripts of Hauptman’s plays, teleplay, screenplays, short stories, poetry, novel, articles and criticism are located in this series. Titles under each genre are filed alphabetically. Related correspondence, reviews, clippings, publicity, and playbills are filed after the draft or script for each title.

Dates: undated

Polish, August 21 - 26, 1982

 File — Box 300, Folder: 2-4
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

The film was eventually produced in 2013 starring Robert Duvall.

Dates: August 21 - 26, 1982

Polish , October 21 - November 11, 1985

 File — Box 301, Folder: 1-5
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

The film was eventually produced in 2013 starring Robert Duvall.

Dates: October 21 - November 11, 1985

Polish, December 12-18, 1988

 File — Box 302, Folder: 1-3
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

The film was eventually produced in 2013 starring Robert Duvall.

Dates: December 12-18, 1988