Personally brought along by playwright Lee Man-guei, she worked continuously for 20 years in the dramatic idiom. Her famous play The Fifth Wall garnered a Golden Tripod Award, after which she went on to write several other plays. Being an essayist and a playwright are two entirely different endeavors.
雖然張曉風以散文著名，其實她在戲劇創作上同樣有亮眼表現，因著老師李曼瑰的提攜，也曾二十多年不間斷對戲劇的投入，有名的〈第五牆〉曾獲編劇金鼎獎，之後陸續又有〈武陵人〉、〈自烹〉、〈和氏璧〉、〈第三害〉等作品。