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Talent and Elite Schools

ON WRITING & DIRECTING — by G.L. Horton

Webber says, "The point is that talent is rare enough that it tends not to stay hidden. Those 30 or so plays make the rounds; they are the ones by writers... who have been... touted by their teachers at the important playwriting departments at Juilliard, Brown, New York University, Iowa, Carnegie-Mellon, Yale and the University of California, San Diego."

Playwright comments: "So glad to know that all 'talent' comes out of 'important' formal education programs."

RLW wrote: "...so glad to know I wasn't the ONLY one irked by this comment..."

Irked?!!?? I am boiling with bile! I want to storm the Bastille with pitchforks and torches, I want to string up the "important" teachers from the nearest lamp post, and make them eat the pages of commissioned garbage I've sat through in the last decade...

 

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