EW Players offers Spring07 Playwrighting Seminar (Jan07)

Join the most active Asian Pacific American playwright development program in the country, which has nurtured works read and produced at theatres nation-wide. Classes meet in downtown Los Angeles. Dates and instructors are subject to change.

SPRING PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP
This 10-week workshop is designed to help new and experienced writers start or develop new plays into scripts that are ready to be put on stage. Each 4-hour session will include: a warm-up writing exercise, reading and discussion of 3 or 4 works in progress, reading assignments from dramatic literature to illustrate and inspire writers with their work, and a closing exercise to focus on the next week’s work. The workshop culminates in staged readings of the works inprogress with professional actors and directors at East West Players’ David Henry Hwang Theater.

Instructor: DORIS BAIZLEY
March 3, 2007 – May 19, 2007 (No class on 4/7)
Saturdays from 10 am – 2 pm
Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center
222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Staged Readings: June 3 – 7, 2007
Fee: $350 (ACTS members $325)

DORIS BAIZLEY is a founding member of LA Theater Works (originally Artists in Prison) and has worked at the Mark Taper Forum as a member of the LA Writers Workshop, dramaturg for the Other Voices Program for playwrights with disabilities, and for seven years was resident playwright for the Taper’s ITP Company for young audiences. She has conducted playwriting workshops at East West Players, LA TheaterWorks, and UCLA Extension.

Her plays (including MRS. CALIFORNIA, SHILOH RULES, MIMI’S GUIDE, TEARS OF RAGE, and an adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL) have been produced in many U.S. regional theaters including ACT Seattle, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Mark Taper Forum, the Peoples’ Light and Theater Company, and internationally at the Icon Theater in Taipei and the Semafor Theater in Prague. Two of her movies have been on the PBS series American Playhouse. Her new play, SEXSTING, written in collaboration with Susan Raffanti, is a winner of the Guthrie Theater/Playwrights’ Center Two-Headed Challenge grant, and had its first public reading at PlayLabs, a festival of new plays at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis in Summer 2004.

If you are certain you wish to REGISTER for this workshop, please contact Literary Manager Jeff Liu at jliu@eastwestplayers.org. Please note that registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis, and the workshop will be limited to twelve playwrights.

On the subject of scholarships: applications for this year (Fall 2006-Spring 2007) were processed last May,2006. We will begin accepting applications for next year (Fall 2007-Spring 2008) this coming May, 2007. Please check back on our website closer to the time or signup for our newsletter (send a request to info@eastwestplayers.org) for ongoing updates.

The David Henry Hwang Writers Institute is supported in part by The James Irvine Foundation.

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	ENROLL NOW FOR THE DAVID HENRY HWANG WRITERS INSTITUTEAT EAST WEST PLAYERS SPRING SESSION BEGINS Saturday March 3, 2007 Join the most active Asian Pacific American playwright development program in the country, which has nurtured works read and produced at theatres nation-wide. Classes meet in downtown Los Angeles. Dates and instructors are subject to change. SPRING PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP This 10-week workshop is designed to help new and experienced writers start or develop new plays into scripts that are ready to be put on stage. Each 4-hour session will include: a warm-up writing exercise, reading and discussion of 3 or 4 works in progress, reading assignments from dramatic literature to illustrate and inspire writers with their work, and a closing exercise to focus on the next week’s work. The workshop culminates in staged readings of the works inprogress with professional actors and directors at East West Players’ David Henry Hwang Theater. Instructor: DORIS BAIZLEY March 3, 2007 – May 19, 2007 (No class on 4/7) Saturdays from 10 am – 2 pm Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center 222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 Staged Readings: June 3 – 7, 2007 Fee: $350 (ACTS members $325) DORIS BAIZLEY is a founding member of LA Theater Works (originally Artists in Prison) and has worked at the Mark Taper Forum as a member of the LA Writers Workshop, dramaturg for the Other Voices Program for playwrights with disabilities, and for seven years was resident playwright for the Taper’s ITP Company for young audiences. She has conducted playwriting workshops at East West Players, LA TheaterWorks, and UCLA Extension. Her plays (including MRS. CALIFORNIA, SHILOH RULES, MIMI’S GUIDE, TEARS OF RAGE, and an adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL) have been produced in many U.S. regional theaters including ACT Seattle, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Mark Taper Forum, the Peoples’ Light and Theater Company, and internationally at the Icon Theater in Taipei and the Semafor Theater in Prague. Two of her movies have been on the PBS series American Playhouse. Her new play, SEXSTING, written in collaboration with Susan Raffanti, is a winner of the Guthrie Theater/Playwrights’ Center Two-Headed Challenge grant, and had its first public reading at PlayLabs, a festival of new plays at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis in Summer 2004. If you are certain you wish to REGISTER for this workshop, please contact Literary Manager Jeff Liu at jliu@eastwestplayers.org. Please note that registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis, and the workshop will be limited to twelve playwrights. On the subject of scholarships: applications for this year (Fall 2006-Spring 2007) were processed last May,2006. We will begin accepting applications for next year (Fall 2007-Spring 2008) this coming May, 2007. Please check back on our website closer to the time or signup for our newsletter (send a request to info@eastwestplayers.org) for ongoing updates. The David Henry Hwang Writers Institute is supported in part by The James Irvine Foundation. Home \| News \| Calendar \| Directory \| Library \| Plays Copyright 2007, Roger W. Tang Questions? Email

SPRING SESSION BEGINS Saturday March 3, 2007