BOOKS by Ken Wolf

How to Get Your Fantastic Play Produced!

A BETTER WAY TO GET YOUR PLAY PRODUCED, presented in an easy to understand and concise format.

Are you tired of submitting your plays out to theatres and getting no results?

Do you want to learn a new way to reach out to theatres and producers that will put you into the top 10% of all play submissions?

Learn a proven method to connect to theatres and producers with your play, in a way that works.

Ken Wolf, Artistic Director of Manhattan Rep, Off-Broadway Producer and Director, Playwright and Host of The Playwriting Podcast, will teach you a Brand New and proven strategy to get your play read and produced. He offers the 8 Principles of How to Get your Fantastic Play Produced, which outlines best practices for play submissions, follow up emails and phone calls, connecting personally to theatres and producers, and so much more!

Learn something different.

Learn a better way to get your play produced!

How to Write a Fantastic Play in 28 Days

So many playwrights take months, even years to complete a play, but this book will teach you a unique writing workflow, and a writing schedule, that will make it easy for you to write a fantastic full-length play (70 - 120 pages) in only 28 days.

Yes, 28 days!

What you will learn:

A clear, detailed road map to write a Fantastic Play in only 28 Days at a minimum of 1 hour a day.

How to choose the right story idea.

How to create specific and compelling characters.

How to write great dialogue.  

How to create a compelling problem that needs to be solved.  

How to utilize the best strategies to write and to edit your play.

How to integrate action, events and lifelines into every scene.

How to get into the “FLOW” state so you will consistently write better and faster than ever before.

And ultimately, you will learn a new way of writing a play that will transform your playwriting career and your life!

Come learn a better way to write a play!

The 10 Principles of Playwriting!

Most playwrights are unaware of the 10 Principles of Playwriting, and because of this, they are unable to write a great play or even come close.

Learning these Principles of Playwriting, these production based DISTINCTIONS of play creation, will transform your playwriting and your playwriting career forever. You will see and understand playwriting in an entirely different way, and if you put these 10 Principles of Playwriting into action, you will take your playwriting to the next level, whether you are novice or a seasoned pro!

This book is essential reading for any playwright who is serious about a playwriting career.

Written by Ken Wolf, Artistic Director, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Playwright, Off-Broadway Director and Producer, and Host of The Playwriting Podcast, this book is this a call for ACTION for Playwrights worldwide, and it is delightfully bookended with real life play production stories.

Come learn the best way to write a Fantastic Play!

How to Write a Fantastic 10 Minute Play in 2 Hours!

Do you just sit and stare at your computer when it's time to write a 10 minute play?

10 minute plays are very popular today at theatre festivals, and they are a great way to "get in the door" at theatres around the world.

What you will learn:

A clear, detailed road map to write a Fantastic 10 Minute Play in 2 hours.

The Five Types of 10 Minute plays and how to choose the right type for you.

How to create specific and compelling characters.

A technique to write better and faster than ever before.

How to use the Four 10 Minute editing questions to edit your play.

How to integrate action, events and lifelines into every scene.

And ultimately, you will learn a new way of writing a Fantastic 10 minute play that will increase your 10 minute playwriting productivity 10 fold!

This book is for new playwrights, who have never written a 10 minute play, and for seasoned pros who take days and weeks to write a 10 minute play.

And now for something completely different…

which will transfrom your life!

RELEASE YOUR FEAR

How to Let Go of Fear & Create the Life of your Dreams!

Do you feel FEARFUL about your future, your job, your relationships, or money?

Do you have STAGE FRIGHT?

Would you like to learn some simple techniques to release your fears and negative emotions, so that you can live a happier and more fulfilling life?

In this ground-breaking book, theatre creator, playwright, Yogi, Off-Broadway director and producer, and self-proclaimed Fear-buster, Ken Wolf, shares the true story of how he developed PTSD from doing Yoga, and how, on his journey to cure himself, he discovered how we unknowingly attach emotion to the world around us, creating an adversarial or a benevolent worldview.

With this new understanding of how we create our reality, he has developed, what he calls "Fear Hacks," simple strategies and techniques to release, transform and conquer fear.

And they're fun too!

Filled with numerous, and sometimes humerous personal stories of Fear-busting, this book will give you a game plan to release your fear, so that you can live the life of your dreams.

What would you do if you had no Fear?