Rejuvenate, meet other community members, and inspire yourself for future projects. We love to meet folks in the community who are interested in trying a new skill or refreshing their practice. All workshops are pay what you choose.
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Past workshops have included:
Writing From Real History–Including Your Own with Joanna Garfinkel
Learn to work from archival documents, family history, personal memoir, and other “real” texts in this workshop with Joanna Garfinkel.
Mapping a Creative Project: Out of your head and into the world with Heidi Taylor
Join dramaturg Heidi Taylor in a fun learning session to gain tools to apply to any creative project. We’ll use different mapping techniques that you can apply to the content of your piece (ideas, images, spaces, times, and people) and to your approach to making it (strategies, timelines, collaborators). You’ll finish the session with a visual or tactile version of your project that you can use to springboard your next creative steps.
Writing Scenes of Intimacy… beyond “they kiss” with Melanie Yeats
Learn how to approach intimate moments in your play with precision and creativity. If you can write scenes of intimacy well, you’ll empower directors and performers to stage your work in ways that do justice to the play as a whole.
Embodied Character Making with Davey Samuel Calderon
Learn to write a play with dynamic characters or create a performance where your personality is bigger-than-life from yourself.
Fast Reads and Cold Takes with Melanie Yeats
Whether you’re taping auditions for new or unpublished plays or prepping for podcast or online play reading recordings, Cold Reads and Fast Takes on New Material will give you tools to make the most of a text.
The Show Will Go On: The Basics of Running a Smooth Event with Davey Calderon
Learn about the basics of planning an event. Ideal for folks new to organizing live events and shows, with some “ensemble” building allowing folks to share their big production questions and Davey offering some best practices in response.