TALK THE TALK: A Dialogue Workshop for Scriptwriters Book Now Avaliable

"Dialogue puts conversation in motion. Great dialogue moves like a great athlete; it is nimble, precise, and powerful. It commands attention, yet it feels effortless in its execution...If we want our dialogue to move like an athlete, then we must train like an athlete," says Penny Penniston, author of TALK THE TALK: A Dialogue Workshop for Scriptwriters (Michael Wiese Productions, March 2010, paperback). Penniston, an award-winning playwright, offers fun and engaging exercises that will help you write dialogue like the greats.

Penniston has taught playwriting at Northwestern University. Her play, The Roaring Girl, garnered a Joseph Jefferson nomination for "Best Adaptation;" and her screenplay Love Is Brilliant won the Sloan Award at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. Her newest play, Spin, makes its world premiere at Chicago's Theater Wit in April 2010.

"Hollywood wants great scripts. Great scripts must have great dialogue. Great dialogue writing begins with this book."-Brantley M. Dunaway, Producer of Love in the Time of Cholera

ABOUT PENNY PENNISTON
Penny Penniston is a Chicago-area playwright and screenwriter. Her newest play, Spin, will have its world premiere with Chicago's Theater Wit during the 2009-2010 season.

Previous stage plays include now then again and The Roaring Girl. now then again had its world premiere in Chicago at the Bailiwick Repertory Theater on February 17, 2000. The show ran for seventeen weeks, received wide critical acclaim, and was awarded Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Citation for "Best New Work." In 2002 now then again was published by Broadway Play Publishing.

Penniston coauthored The Roaring Girl with her husband, director Jeremy Wechsler. This adaptation of the 1611 comedy by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker had its world premiere in Chicago with Shakespeare's Motley Crew. It received a Joseph Jefferson nomination for "Best Adaptation."

Penniston's screenplays include Love Is Brilliant (an adaptation of her stage play, now then again), Going Out of the Box, and Gay Pride & Prejudice, Love Is Brilliant received the Sloan Award at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival.

Penniston has written short plays for Chicago's Collaboraction Theater Company and Shakespeare's Motley Crew. From 2002-2007, she taught playwriting as an adjunct professor in the Theater Department of Northwestern University. She has also guest lectured at DePaul University. Visit Penniston at: www.penninkent.com.