FALL 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 in progress with professional actors and directors at East West Players’ David Henry Hwang Theater.

Instructor: DORIS BAIZLEY
September 15, 2007 – November 17, 2007
Saturdays from 10 am – 2 pm
Staged Readings: December 4 – 11, 2007
Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center
222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Fee: $375 (ACTS members $350)

''WRITING IS REWRITING''

So you've written a play—now what do you do? You rewrite it, of course! Most playwrights know that the real work on a play begins after you finish the first draft. The rewriting phase is a crucial time in which characters are refined, structure is solidified, and themes are clarified. It is also the time when playwrights really dig deep into the work, honing in on every detail—scene by scene, character by character, line by line.

Instructor: PRINCE GOMOLVILAS
September 4, 2007 – November 27, 2007
Tuesday Evenings from 7 pm – 10 pm
Staged Readings: December 17-20, 2007
Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center
222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Fee: $450 (ACTS members $425)