Theresa Rebeck's career has hopscotched between the Off-Broadway successes of plays such as Spike Heels, The Family of Mann, and View of the Dome, to award- winning work writing and producing network television such as NYPD Blue, to writing screenplays for independent and studio features.

This writer's guide is both a discussion of the writer's craft and a no-holds-barred discussion of the politics in the movie, television, and theater worlds. Rebeck writes, "Someone once asked me, 'What advice would you give to young writers who wanted to go into show business?' And I answered, almost without thinking, 'Tell all of them to go back and reread Machiavelli.' "

In a series of hilarious and provocative discussions covering all aspects of dramatic writing, Rebeck attempts to address what she considers both of a writer's primary concerns - how to tell a story with truth and vision and how to maneuver as a dramatic writer in a dangerous world.

THERESA REBECK's current and very successful play, "The Scene," is running both Off-Broadway and On. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called The Scene "the most accomplished and rewarding play in the 2006 Humana Festival -- a small but searing drama peopled by everyday characters and driven by an off-the-rack plot. A sharply observed and often blisteringly funny play."

THERESA REBECK's most recent work includes her play MAURITIUS, opens October 4th at the Biltmore Theater on Broadway. The play is a darkly funny story about two half-sisters who come in conflict over a book of rare, potentially priceless postage stamps. Theresa's new novel, Three Girls and Her Brother, is being brought out by Random house in the United States and HarperCollins in England, in March of 2008. The world premiere of her play, OUR HOUSE, is opening the Denver Center Theatre's New Play Summit in January of 2008. Rebeck's many other plays include Bad Dates, Spike Heels, The Water's Edge, and The Scene, which will be presented this season in New York at Second Stage, also directed by Taichman. Her work has been widely produced both regionally and internationally.