East West Players Announces Upcoming Playwriting Workshops At The David Henry Hwang Writers Institute

FALL 2010 SESSIONS BEGIN on
Saturday September 11, 2010
 IMPORTANT NOTICES:
1. The Playwriting Workshop with Doris Baizley is first-come, first-serve.
2. Requests for enrollment should go to EWP Literary Manager Jeff Liu at jliu@eastwestplayers.org.  You do not have a confirmed space in class unless you personally receive an enrollment form and then make the first payment on time.
3. Anyone who would like to apply for a scholarship can download the application form here,  postmark deadline is 8/30/10 (notification by 9/6/10).

Fall 2010 Playwriting Workshop:
This ten-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 four-hour session includes: a warm-up writing exercise, reading and discussion of work in progress, reading assignments from dramatic literature to inspire writers with their work, and a closing exercise to focus on the next week's work.  The workshop ends with staged readings free to the public at East West Players.

Instructor: DORIS BAIZLEY
September 11, 2010 - November 20, 2010
(No Class on one date TBA)
Saturdays from 10 am - 2 pm
Staged Readings:
December 7 - December 19, 2010
Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center
222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Fee: $400 (ACTS members $375)

BIO:
Doris Baizley's recent documentary and community-based plays include: ONE DAY/SARAH HOUSE, winner of a 2009 Santa Barbara Independent Award, PEACE CRIMES: THE MINNESOTA 8 vs.THE WAR, produced by The History Theatre and the U. of Minnesota in 2008, and SEXSTING, co-written with defense attorney Susan Raffanti,  winner of the Guthrie Theatre/Playwrights Center Two-Headed Challenge Grant, produced at the Salt Lake Acting Company in 2007. She is a founding member of LA Theatre Works and was resident dramaturg for the Mark Taper Forum's Other Voices Programs for theatre artists with disabilities. Her plays MRS. CALIFORNIA, SHILOH RULES, and A CHRISTMAS CAROL have been produced in many U.S. regional theaters including the Mark Taper Forum, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and ACT Seattle.  She is currently working on a play about Sister Kenny and the legacy of polio for the History Theatre in St. Paul MN.
For more information visit:
http://www.eastwestplayers.org/arts_education/literary_DHHWI.htm


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