DAVID HENRY HWANG WRITERS INSTITUTE
Instructor: DORIS BAIZLEY
September 14, 2013 November 23, 2013
Saturdays from 10 am 2 pm (No class on 10/26)
Staged Readings: December 10 17, 2013
St. Francis Xavier Chapel Japanese Catholic Center - Maryknoll
222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Fee: $400 (ACTS members $375)
Join the most active Asian Pacific American playwright development program in the country, which has nurtured works read and produced at theatres nation-wide. Classes meet in downtown Los Angeles. Dates and instructors are subject to change.
This 10-week playwriting 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 includes: a warm-up writing exercise, reading and discussion of works 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 culminates in staged readings of the works in progress at East West Players' David Henry Hwang Theater.
To enroll, please contact EWP Arts Education Director Marilyn Tokuda at mtokuda@eastwestplayers.org Please note that enrollment is on a first come, first served basis and you do not have a space in the workshop unless you personally receive an enrollment form via email.
To apply for a scholarship, please click here .
Doris Baizley is a founding member of LA Theaterworks. Her plays MRS. CALIFORNIA, SHILOH RULES, and A CHRISTMAS CAROL have been produced in many U.S. regional theaters. Recent documentary plays are: PEACE CRIMES and SISTER KENNY'S CHILDREN at The History Theatre in St. Paul MN; ONE DAY/SARAH HOUSE, winner of a 2009 Santa Barbara Independent Press Award for original script; and SEXSTING, winner of the first Guthrie Theatre/Playwrights Center Two-Headed Challenge Grant. She recently story-edited Anne Makepeace's documentary feature film WE STILL LIVE HERE!, winner of the 2011 Full Frame Documentary Festival Inspiration Award and the 2011 Telluride Moving Mountains Award. SEXSTING received its Los Angeles premiere in Feb. 2013, at the Skylight Theater, featuring Gregory Itzin and JD Cullum.
