East Wests offers Playwrighting Seminars for Spring 2009

SPRING 2009 PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP
(Enrollment on first-come, first-serve basis)
Session begins: April 4, 2009

This ten-week workshop is designed to help writers develop new plays into stage-ready scripts. Each four hour session includes: warm-up exercise, reading & discussion of works-in-progress, reading
assignments to inspire writers with their work, and closing exercise. This workshop ends with staged readings at East West Players.

Instructor: DORIS BAIZLEY
Duration: April 4, 2009 – June 13, 2009
Time: Saturdays 10 am – 2 pm
Staged Readings: June 20 – 30, 2009
Location: Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center
222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Fee: $400 (ACTS members $375)

Doris Baizley, playwright, is a founding member of LA Theater Works and has worked at the Mark Taper Forum's Other Voices Program for playwrights with disabilities as a dramaturg. She is a resident playwright for the ITP Company for young audiences and has conducted playwriting workshops at East West Players, LA TheaterWorks and UCLA Extension.

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WRITING IS REWRITING
(Enrollment by application only)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 9, 2009
Session Begins: February 21, 2009

This intensive 15-week workshop will feature lessons on different aspects of rewriting. Every playwright will have two class sessions dedicated to workshopping two drafts of their play. "Feedback Sessions" will help playwrights to realize their own unique vision and find common ground with other writers in issues that surround the rewriting phase. The strength of this tight-knit community of playwrights will help bring all the projects to completion--the goal being a production-ready script ready for submission to theaters. The workshop will culminate in staged readings by professional actors and directors at East West Players.

Instructor: PRINCE GOMOLVILAS
Duration: February 21, 2009 – June 13, 2009
(no class on May 23, plus one other TBA)
Time: Saturdays 10 am – 1 pm
Staged Readings: June 20 – 30, 2009
Location: Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center
222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Fee: $500 (ACTS members $475)

Prince Gomolvilas's plays include Big Hunk O' Burnin' Love (1998,East West Players), The Theory Of Everything (2000, East West Players),and the stage adaptation of Mysterious Skin (2003, New Conservatory Theatre Center). He has received the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild/Julie Harris Playwright Award, International Herald Tribune/Singapore Repertory Theatre Playwriting Award, PEN Center USA West Literary Award for Drama, and East West Players' Made in America Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement for the Asian Pacific Islander Community. He received his MFA in Playwriting from San Francisco State University