How I Learned To Write Dialogue (That Was Actually Good) — Sarah T. Schwab

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4 min readOct 4, 2024

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Film Courage: Can you think back to a great writing day and what was it that made it so?

Sarah T. Schwab, Writer/Director/Producer: A great writing day was when I was first learning how to write stage plays.

I had been in New York for a while. I had been part of the independent theater scene. I had met my producing partner Brian Long. He was the managing director at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and they had such supreme talent there when I first got there. They were doing a three-hander with Vanessa Redgrave, Jesse Eisenberg and another talented actor and his name is escaping me right now.

It was at the Cherry Lane Theatre before A24 bought the theater. It was in a 200-seat house and it was just magic.

I was slowly learning. I had a lot of embarrassing moments because I was meeting these kinds of actors in this echelon and they’re just great writers.

Jesse had written the play. He’s a beautiful writer and actor.

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