PLAYWRIGHT

I was thinking about Sarah Ruhl and her well-crafted plays and then the word playwright:

A year or two ago, a director (at Boise Contemporary Theater) was talking in a Q&A about playwritin/theater/acting/owning a theater company (I don't wholly remember the context), but he said that he really loved the word "Playwright" because it doesn't just mean "someone who writes plays." The word "wright," though seemingly a highfalutin way of spelling "write," instead implies a crafting, a molding of tangible things, like a shipwright, or a carpenter. I really like this concept: that by writing something on a page, you're crafting, building, wrighting something real.