SPRING 2005 PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP

This 15-week workshop will be designed to help new and experienced writers start or develop new plays into scripts that are ready to be put on stage. Each 3 hour session will include: a warmup writing exercise, discussion of everyone's work progress, 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.

March 26, 2005 - July 9, 2005
Saturdays 10-1 pm

Fee: $350 (ACTS members $325)
Location: Studio City

Doris Baizley, playwright, is a founding member of LATheater 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 had 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.