PLAYWRITING: Playwriting Resources

This playwriting tutorial was written by playwright and screenwriter Jonathan Dorf, whose plays have been produced in more than 45 states and on five continents. Co-Chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and Final Draft Resident Playwriting Expert, he co-founded YouthPLAYS, the online publisher of plays for young actors and audiences, and has served as US cultural envoy to Barbados and Visiting Associate Professor in the graduate playwriting program at Hollins University. He received his B.A. magna cum laude in Dramatic Writing and Literature from Harvard College and his M.F.A. in Playwriting from UCLA. Creator of the book Young Playwrights 101 and the course Introduction to Playwriting, Jonathan Dorf is available as a script consultant. (Click on the links provided for each section, and be sure to notice that you must navigate through pages in some of the individual sections by clicking "next page".)

This handy and simple format guide from the City Theatre Company shows not only the standard playwriting format itself...but it also provides an explanation of each key portion.

This PDF is a guide to “professional” stage play script formatting (playwriting). These pages are an explanation of the standard stage play format.

Here is another (simplified) example of playwriting format.