The author brings a career of academic and professional directing experience to inform readers how to select, prepare, and mount a production for the stage. At the same time, he expresses the disciplines, joys, and rigors of the faith-based walk as a framework for this creative journey. The aesthetic requisites for stage directing are combined with an exploration of what it means to be a practicing artist under God's creative mandate. The author demonstrates how one's worldview as a Christian finds reflection in a world of visual and aural metaphors within a stage production.

This book provides an approach to writing playscripts for the theatre by the Christian writer. In part one, it establishes the aesthetics of story and situates the faith-based writer within a more theoretical context. Part two examines story structure elements and tools that will equip the writer to continue her journey in realizing her full creative potential through the written word. Throughout, the author reflects on why the preponderance of students he taught over 40 years who classify themselves as Christians rarely try and integrate their faith experience into their written creative work. In response, before concluding the author offers...