FTA 4125/5125: Finding Scripts and Plays
Finding Scripts and Screenplays
To find scripts or screenplays in the Library, search the Library Catalog using the keyword "script" or "screenplay."
To find scripts or screenplays in other libraries, or to order through inter-library loan, search in Worldcat using the keyword "script" or "screenplay."
- Alexander Street Press - American Film Scripts OnlineThis edition of American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) contains 776 scripts by 856 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes over 430 original images of previously unpublished screenplays. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,000 scripts and over 100,000 scenes of life as portrayed in the movies.
Finding Plays
To find plays in the Library, search the Library Catalog for the title of the play or or the name of the author. To find plays in other libraries, or to order through inter-library loan, search Worldcat for the title of the play or the name of the author.
- New Play ExchangeThe New Play Exchange, a National New Play Network project, is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers. Designed and built with the needs of the entire new play sector in mind, the New Play Exchange serves writers, producers, directors, artistic directors, literary managers, dramaturgs, publishers, agents, actors, professors, students, and even fans of the theater.