East West Players Announces Two Upcoming Playwriting Workshops At The David Henry Hwang Writers Institute
Fall 2008 Sessions Begin on Saturday, September 13, 2008 AND Monday, September 15, 2008

IMPORTANT NOTICES:
1/Contact EWP Literary Manager Jeff Liu at jliu@eastwestplayers.org for enrollment, which is first-come, first-serve. Please note that you do not have a confirmed space in either class unless you receive an enrollment form from Jeff personally and then make the payment on time.

2/Anyone who enrolls in the Playwriting Workshop taught by Prince Gomolvilas ($400) has the special option to take the Monday Night Drama Club (Play Analysis) class for half price (only $150).

3/Anyone who would like to apply for a scholarship can download the application form from our website, www.eastwestplayers.org. The deadline to apply is 9/2/08.

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FALL PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP

Designed for beginning and experienced playwrights, this 10-week intensive workshop will guide students in starting a new play from scratch and bringing it to completion. Innovative writing exercises that use music as a springboard to the imagination and 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
September 13, 2008 – November 22, 2008
(one extra week scheduled because no class on one day TBA)
Saturdays from 10:00AM – 2:00PM
Staged Readings: Dec 7-21, 2008
Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center
222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Fee: $400 (ACTS members $375)

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. He 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 EWP's 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.

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AND INTRODUCING A BRAND NEW CLASS:
MONDAY NIGHT DRAMA CLUB
A comparison of Western and Asian American classics

Structure. Inciting incidents. Catharsis. The alienation effect. What are all these mysterious terms and how are they being used in works on stage and screen today? Examine plays in a way that makes sense to writers, performers and normal people alike. Shore up your dramatic education and argue late into the night. This 10-week class will explore principles of drama and play analysis through discussions of a sampling of Western and Asian American classics, as well as writing exercises designed to enhance your understanding of style and form. Readings may include plays by Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Chin, David Henry Hwang, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Chay Yew, and Julia Cho.

Instructor: ANNETTE LEE
September 15, 2008 – November 24, 2008
(one extra week scheduled because no class on one day TBA)
Mondays from 7:00PM – 10:00PM
Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center
222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Fee: $300 (ACTS members/DHHWI alumni $250)

Annette Lee is an alumnus of the DHHWI whose play A DIRTY SECRET BETWEEN THE TOES was produced at Lodestone Theatre Ensemble. HACIENDA HEIGHTS will debut as part of TEN TO LIFE in April 2009. Her plays have also been seen in New York, Aspen, Portland and Chicago . She is an MFA in Playwriting candidate at UCLA, has served as a Playwright-in-Residence for Upper Reaches Theatre Company, and is a recipient of the Mickey Dude Fellowship, the David C. Baumgartner Comedy Writing Award, and the Edna and Yu-Shan Han Award. Her play HAPPY TALK was the winner of Another Chicago Theatre’s 2008 Last Play Standing Award.