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Average female playwright income = $25-40K.
Average male playwright income = $40-60K.


playwrights get paid for individual plays. For every 1000 playwrights: one gets paid enough to cover the time it takes to write another play (provided they write quickly), nine get paid less than the minimum wage for the time it took to write the play in the first place, and nine hundred and ninety get paid nothing.

of these 990 perhaps 30 will get their plays performed through funding, another 60 will spend their own money or time staging their own plays and 900 will put the manuscript into a drawer and forget about it eventually - some may subsequently work on a screenplay based on the play, but here the chances are as slim for production, unless you class students work or home video as a successful outcome.

Most plays generate money through selling the 'rights' to perform the play, for most first time playwrights the 'rights' are only worth a token sum, say one pound. Subsequent plays on the back of a successful play become more negotiable. in which case the playwright must weigh up their desire to see the play produced (less money) and the producers desire to produce the play (more money). The producer has most of the power in this relationship.

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