play agent

American  

noun

1. a broker representing a playwright in dealings with theater managers, producers, etc.

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Example Sentences

It’s the best of the book’s many vivid thumbnail sketches, including depictions of legendary play agent Peggy Ramsay and National Theater director Peter Hall.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2015

Something of a wit in his coarse way, he began editing plays for production, soon became a play agent, buying and renting the works of others.

From Time Magazine Archive

I took an old personal friend along to play agent for me, and for two or three weeks we roamed through Nevada and California and had a very cheerful time of it.

From Roughing It, Part 8. by Twain, Mark