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Topic: bio listing for writer who adapted a book

Posted By: jenkins
Subject: bio listing for writer who adapted a book
Date Posted: 3/02/11 at 11:47am

How do you list yourself in a bio if you've adapted a book for stage? "Writer" seems wrong, and "Adapter" seems weird.

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Posted By: Amos Hart
Date Posted: 3/02/11 at 10:03pm

If you wrote the script, you're a writer.

Posted By: Spectrum
Date Posted: 3/03/11 at 2:34am

If it's a script for the stage, wouldn't (s)he be a playwright or dramatist? Writer, to me, implies newspapers or magazines.

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Posted By: edh915
Date Posted: 3/06/11 at 2:11pm

If you wrote a play - original, or adapted from another source - you are a playwright.

Posted By: KEB54
Date Posted: 3/06/11 at 7:43pm

"Adapted for the stage by ___" is how I've seen it listed in programs. In the copyright he is referred to as the author.

For your purposes, how about "The author of the stage adaptation of XXX (author)'s, XXX (Book Title)."

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KEB