Slots open for Fall Playwrighting at East West
Join the most active Asian Pacific American playwright development program in the country, which has nurtured works produced and read at theatres nation-wide. Classes meet in downtown Los Angeles. Dates and instructors are subject to change. For an enrollment form, contact Literary Manager Jeff Liu at jliu@eastwestplayers.org or (213) 625-7000 x27.
FALL PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP
Designed for beginning and experienced playwrights, this 10-week intensive workshop will guide students to start a new play from scratch and bring it to completion. Innovative writing exercises that use music as a springboard to the imagination and in-depth study of contemporary texts serve to motivate the creative process and inspire students to finish what they started. In-class readings of works-in-progress and directed feedback sessions will further encourage participants to continue writing. The workshop culminates in staged readings of the finished products with professional actors and directors at East West Players‚ David Henry Hwang Theatre.
Instructor: PRINCE GOMOLVILAS
August 19 to October 28, 2006 (No class on Labor Day Weekend)
Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm
Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center
222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Fee: $350 (ACTS members $325)
Prince Gomolvilas's plays have been performed around the country and in Singapore. BIG HUNK O‚ BURNIN‚ LOVE and THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING had their world premieres at East West Players. His is also the author of BEE and the stage adaptation of MYSTERIOUS SKIN. He received the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild/Julie Harris Playwright Award, International Herald Tribune/SRT Playwriting Award, and PEN Center USA West Literary Award; grants from National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group's Residency Program for Playwrights and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation; and a screenwriting fellowship from The Chesterfield Writer‚s Film Project, sponsored by Paramount Pictures. He received his MFA in Playwriting and BA in Film from San Francisco State University. East West Players recently honored him with the Made in America Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement for the Asian Pacific Islander Community.
