Frederick Stavestir
Frederick Stavestir
An eccentric, brilliant gnome playwright. He has been working in the theater world as a playwright for over a century, and he has resisted every attempt by the larger theater companies trying to get him to work exclusively for them. He works primarily out of Novandria, but travels all over, and will only let people put on his plays if they are willing to do so on his terms - namely, there must be at least one price affordable to most common laborers that lets them enjoy the performance, and they must not alter or abridge his text.
His plays take both sides of the upper and lower class theater worlds, and uses elements of both. He is exceptionally good at high drama, with moving, eloquent monologues full of passion and sophisticated nuance, only to have the new scene setting the audience in stitches, laughing at fart jokes and sex humor. His fame has risen to the point where larger theater companies have been wanting to put on his plays, although most balk at his conditions. Still ,some large companies, especially in his native Eisen, have acceded to his demands, and had special performances available to all. He worked with the Platinum Players, a well-known company in Novandria, to put on a summer outdoor theater festival for the past ten years, an idea which has slowly begun to spread elsewhere.
