{"podcast":{"title":"First Online With Fran","slug":"first-online-with-fran-8997","podcast_index_feed_id":8997,"rss_url":"https://feeds.blubrry.com/feeds/firstonlinewithfran.xml","website_url":"https://firstonlinewithfran.com/","image_url":"https://assets.blubrry.com/coverart/orig/474867-775410.jpg","author":"Frances McGarry","episode_count":95,"summary":"Featuring Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary things in The Arts","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T08:21:07.226255+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/first-online-with-fran-8997"},"episode":{"title":"Theresa Rebeck:  Precepts of Playwriting","slug":"theresa-rebeck-precepts-of-playwriting","published_at":"2024-11-23T03:12:47+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/first-online-with-fran-8997/theresa-rebeck-precepts-of-playwriting","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/first-online-with-fran-8997","url":"https://podcast.show/firstonlinewithfran/episode/138831263/","audio_url":"https://media.blubrry.com/firstonlinewithfran/content.blubrry.com/firstonlinewithfran/Theresa_Reebeck_Podcast.mp3","summary":"What is central to my work is comedy. For me, there is a desperation in comedy that's very theatrical. And that you can ultimately get a play to a place where everybody wants to just kill themselves or they can tell a joke. So, to me, that's often where they often land. These are your choices: you can kill yourself or die or tell a joke. ~Theresa Rebeck Theresa Rebeck is a prolific and widely produced playwright, whose work can be seen and read throughout the United States and abroad. Last season, her fifth Broadway play premiered on Broadway, making Rebeck the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time.","meta_description":"What is central to my work is comedy. For me, there is a desperation in comedy that's very theatrical. And that you can ultimately get a play to a place w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1695,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/first-online-with-fran-8997/episodes/theresa-rebeck-precepts-of-playwriting/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/first-online-with-fran-8997/theresa-rebeck-precepts-of-playwriting.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}