Drama put right after direction from the author? (10)
I believe the answer is:
playwright
'the author?' is the definition.
(playwright is a kind of author)
'drama put right after direction' is the wordplay.
'drama' becomes 'play' (synonyms).
'put' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'right after direction' becomes 'wright' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'play'+'wright'='PLAYWRIGHT'
'from' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for playwright that I've seen before include "Coward, for example" , "Shakespeare perhaps" , "Dramatist" , "Author of dramas" , "Coward, possibly" .)