Clint Snyder's guest appearances

Clint Snyder

The Drama Teacher Podcast

Allison Williams

Elaine Stritch

Jeffrey Harr

Stephen Gregg

Ken Preuss

Ruth Wareham

Janice Harris

Jana Beck

Kerry Hishon

Christian Kiley

Steven Stack

Annie Loffredo

Matt Webster

Lindsay Price

Bradley Walton

OwlTail

Episode 53: Acting Up: Interview with Playwright Clint SnyderLindsay talks with new-to-Theatrefolk playwright Clint Synder, author of Lord of the Pies. We talk about the writing process, writing plays for teenagers, and how does Clint feel about technology?Show Notes	Lord of the Pies by Clint SnyderSubscribe to The Theatrefolk Podcast	On iTunes.	On Stitcher.Episode TranscriptLindsay: Welcome to TFP, the Theatrefolk podcast. I am Lindsay Price, resident playwright for Theatrefolk. Hello. I hope you're well. Thanks for listening.So this is just you and me, right? I can confide in you, right? So I've been trying to figure out something new for the intro, something that says what I'm doing and the scale, and while I am actually sitting in front of a little foam box, the words “foam box” irk me tremendously. They just don't sound right. They look right, but you're not reading along are you? I love “Let's do this,” but it's taken by much bigger fish than me. [Sighs] Anyway, blerg. I'll keep working on it. Episode 53. We are acting up in an interview with playwright Clint Snyder. So today, I am going to talk to a new-to-Theatrefolk playwright, Clint Snyder. Clint recently joined us with the delicious one-act parody Lord of the Pies, which is a spin on the classic—can you guess it—Lord of the Flies. Pies, flies?What makes this parody great is that you don't actually need to know the original to enjoy and get something out of the play. It works on two levels, and when Craig and I were considering the play, that is what really sold him. He loved it out of context. He didn't know the original work. Whereas I did know Lord of the Flies and I loved it in context. So we knew it was a winner.You can find Lord of the Pies on our website, Theatrefolk.com. Go there now, read the sample pages for Lord of the Pies, pick it up. It is an especially unique competition piece, I think. Now, on to the interview.So, I am here with Clint Snyder. Hello, Clint.Clint: Hi.Lindsay: [Laughs]Clint: [Laughs]Lindsay: And Clint is one of our writers, and he has written a lovely, lovely piece called Lord of the Pies.Clint: Yes.Lindsay: And so what we're going to do today, Clint, is we're going to spend a couple of minutes just basically talking about writing, if that's okay with you.Clint: Yeah, that sounds great.Lindsay: Awesome. So where are you?Clint: I'm in Portland, Maine.Lindsay: Ah. Oh, I love Portland. Have you always been there or where you there for school or…?Clint: I moved up to Maine for college, and then I moved down to Portland right after college. So I've been here about five years.Lindsay: What’s your arts community like?Clint: It's small, but it's nice. It's very vibrant. There are a couple of different community theatres around here, and it's a great place.Lindsay: Do you find that you can sort of…there's enough for you as an artist?Clint: Oh yeah.Lindsay: Yeah?Clint: There are definitely a lot of different outlets especially for how small of a city it is, but it's really nice here.Lindsay: That's really cool.Clint: Yeah.Lindsay: So my first question in terms of writing is, why do you write? Why did you choose to do that?Clint: I guess it's kind of a cliché, but I’d have to say I write because that's the only thing that I know how to do. [Laughs] I don't know what else I would be doing if I wasn’t writing, you know?Lindsay: There was a point when I was starting out as a playwright and it was going pretty much horrifically wrong, and you know, when you get to that point you're like, “Okay, do I go get a job or do I do this?” And I'm like, “I don't know how to do anything else, so I might as well just keep stumbling through.”Clint: Exactly. Like I don't know honestly what else I would…I mean, I'm a photographer right now, but really that's just to tide me over until I can do this as a full-time thin...

Episode 53: Acting Up: Interview with Playwright Clint Snyder Lindsay talks with new-to-Theatrefolk playwright Clint Synder, author of Lord of the Pies. We talk about the writing process, writing plays for teenagers, and how does Clint feel about technology? Show Notes 	Lord of the Pies by Clint Snyder Subscribe to The Theatrefolk Podcast 	On iTunes. 	On Stitcher. Episode Transcript Lindsay: Welcome to TFP, the Theatrefolk podcast. I am Lindsay Price, resident playwright for Theatrefolk. Hello. I hope you're well. Thanks for listening. So this is just you and me, right? I can confide in you, right? So I've been trying to figure out something new for the intro, something that says what I'm doing and the scale, and while I am actually sitting in front of a little foam box, the words “foam box” irk me tremendously. They just don't sound right. They look right, but you're not reading along are you? I love “Let's do this,” but it's taken by much bigger fish than me. [Sighs] Anyway, blerg. I'll keep working on it. Episode 53. We are acting up in an interview with playwright Clint Snyder. So today, I am going to talk to a new-to-Theatrefolk playwright, Clint Snyder. Clint recently joined us with the delicious one-act parody Lord of the Pies, which is a spin on the classic—can you guess it—Lord of the Flies. Pies, flies? What makes this parody great is that you don't actually need to know the original to enjoy and get something out of the play. It works on two levels, and when Craig and I were considering the play, that is what really sold him. He loved it out of context. He didn't know the original work. Whereas I did know Lord of the Flies and I loved it in context. So we knew it was a winner. You can find Lord of the Pies on our website, <a href="http://Theatrefolk.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Theatrefolk.com</a>. Go there now, read the sample pages for Lord of the Pies, pick it up. It is an especially unique competition piece, I think. Now, on to the interview. So, I am here with Clint Snyder. Hello, Clint. Clint: Hi. Lindsay: [Laughs] Clint: [Laughs] Lindsay: And Clint is one of our writers, and he has written a lovely, lovely piece called Lord of the Pies. Clint: Yes. Lindsay: And so what we're going to do today, Clint, is we're going to spend a couple of minutes just basically talking about writing, if that's okay with you. Clint: Yeah, that sounds great. Lindsay: Awesome. So where are you? Clint: I'm in Portland, Maine. Lindsay: Ah. Oh, I love Portland. Have you always been there or where you there for school or…? Clint: I moved up to Maine for college, and then I moved down to Portland right after college. So I've been here about five years. Lindsay: What’s your arts community like? Clint: It's small, but it's nice. It's very vibrant. There are a couple of different community theatres around here, and it's a great place. Lindsay: Do you find that you can sort of…there's enough for you as an artist? Clint: Oh yeah. Lindsay: Yeah? Clint: There are definitely a lot of different outlets especially for how small of a city it is, but it's really nice here. Lindsay: That's really cool. Clint: Yeah. Lindsay: So my first question in terms of writing is, why do you write? Why did you choose to do that? Clint: I guess it's kind of a cliché, but I’d have to say I write because that's the only thing that I know how to do. [Laughs] I don't know what else I would be doing if I wasn’t writing, you know? Lindsay: There was a point when I was starting out as a playwright and it was going pretty much horrifically wrong, and you know, when you get to that point you're like, “Okay, do I go get a job or do I do this?” And I'm like, “I don't know how to do anything else, so I might as well just keep stumbling through.” Clint: Exactly. Like I don't know honestly what else I would…I mean, I'm a photographer right now, but really that's just to tide me over until I can do this as a full-time thin...

Acting Up: Interview with Playwright Clint Snyder