Tom Erb

ERB Publishing

The Playwright’s Collection

Six shirts for people who live in scripts, stage directions, and second drafts. Written by a working playwright, for the writers, directors, and theater people who will actually get the joke.

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The Collection

Six Shirts, First Run

I Write in Courier New

The font every first draft is written in.

A shirt for the writer who still drafts on Courier New, the steady monospaced typewriter font behind decades of scripts.

$28

Beat.

The stage direction every playwright leans on.

One word, one period, the direction actors wait for and writers type more than any other.

$26

Still Workshopping This Line

For the draft that will not stop changing.

Every writer knows a line that has been rewritten a dozen times and still is not right.

$28

Kill Your Darlings, Not Your Deadlines

Cut the line, keep the date.

The oldest advice in writing, paired with the one thing every playwright actually has to hit.

$28

Every Exit Is an Entrance Somewhere Else

A line worth wearing.

A quiet nod to the literary tradition every playwright studies and borrows from, printed clean and simple.

$26

Dramatis Personae: It’s Complicated

The cast list nobody asked for.

Every script opens with a list of characters, and every writer’s actual cast of people is more tangled than any program note could capture.

$28

New designs added as the collection grows. Printed to order through the ERB Publishing shop.

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