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Playwright
Type-Three Persona: Director, Explorer, Storyteller
Favourite play activities include:
- Organising cultural travel Guiding meditation Helping others share their experiences
A Playwright is a Type-Three Play Persona, combining Director, Explorer and Storyteller. A Playwright leads others in exploration and stories. As happy delving into fantasy as retelling the tales of exotic cultures, they love to enable others to showcase narratives. Playwrights might love to travel, to experience the journey, and could be the person who organises the expedition - and loves to tell everyone about it afterwards.
Reflects traits of type-two personas:
Pioneer
Type-Two Persona: Director, Explorer
Favourite play activities include:
- Orienteering Geo-caching
A Pioneer is a Type-Two Play Persona, combining Director and Explorer. A pioneer leads from the front, driving into unchartered territory. They can sometimes lead people astray, but as often as not they're the first to hit upon the next big craze - and so you'll be glad to have a Pioneer around to help you be ahead of the crowd!
Dramatist
Type-Two Persona: Director, Storyteller
Favourite play activities include:
- Leading book groups / writing groups Starting a campfire storytelling circle Setting up short-story competitions Compering open mic nights
A Dramatist is a Type-Two Play Persona, combining Director and Storyteller. Never happier than when helping others to tell their stories, Dramatists often lead from the front, but know when to quieten down and let others take centre-stage. Conversely, Dramatists may be drawn to the tales of great leaders, and exult those they see as having supported others in their successes.
Bard
Type-Two Persona: Explorer, Storyteller
Favourite play activities include:
- Travel writing Having new emotional experiences Reading fantasy / science-fiction Exploration (of culture as well as geography)
A Bard is a Type-Two Play Persona, combining Explorer and Storyteller. They are on an eternal search for new experiences and stories to tell about them. For a Bard, these two things cannot be separated - the journey is the story, and the story must be about the journey. You may hear tales of fantasy from a Bard, but they will be telling you about human experience and the condition of being alive. For a Bard unless they are constantly fed new ways of seeing the world they do not feel alive - so don't be surprised if they're up and off before they've finished telling you the current tale.
Combines traits of basic, type-one personas:
Director
Type-One Persona: Director
Favourite play activities include:
- Refereeing Conducting music Directing theatre Directing films Dungeon-master
A Director is a basic, single-type Play Persona. A director loves to be in charge, and are frequently natural-born leaders. While on occasion they can tip over into being controlling, a director is a great person to have around. They'll be the one who wants to organise play activities, set up friends to meet one another, and loves to be able to sit back and watch their plan come together.
Explorer
Type-One Persona: Explorer
Favourite play activities include:
- Treasure-hunts Travel Trying new cuisines
An Explorer is a basic, single-type Play Persona. Motivated by a sense of adventure, an explorer likes to discover new things. That could be new music, always looking for the latest (though not necessarily the greatest) band. They often love travel - and the more unusual and different from their normal experience the better.
Storyteller
Type-One Persona: Storyteller
Favourite play activities include:
- Writing Lecturing Sharing experiences Imagining Role-Playing
A Storyteller is a basic, Type-One Play Persona. Enjoying sharing their experience (though not necessarily using words) a storyteller often uses play to form memories as much as for the experience itself. They love to imagine - and to share the product of their imaginings with their fellow travellers. On occasion this can tend towards storytellers seeming a little distant from the action, but be reassured that this is just them storing up information to relate back later!