Selected Bibliography

Here are some suggested books that you may find of value in writing your ten-minute play (as well as writing plays of any length).

Garrison, Gary. Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten-Minute Play. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001.

———. A More Perfect Ten. Boston: Focus, 2008.

Harbison, Lawrence, ed. 2009: The Best Ten-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors. Portland, ME: Smith & Kraus, 2009.

Lajos, Egri. The Art of Dramatic Writing. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.

Rico, Gabriele. Writing the Natural Way. New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 1983, 2002. www.gabrielerico.com.

Sweet, Jeffrey. The Dramatist’s Toolkit: The Craft of the Working Playwright. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1993.