East West Offers Spring 2011 Playwriting Workshops

SPRING 2011 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
January 8, 2011 - March 19, 2011
(No Class on one date TBA)
Saturdays from 10 am - 2 pm
Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center
222 S. Hewitt St.,
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Staged Readings:
March 29 - April 5, 2011

Fee: $400 (ACTS members $375)

About Doris Baizley:
Doris Baizley, playwright, is a founding member of LA Theaterworks.

Plays MRS. CALIFORNIA, SHILOH RULES, and A CHRISTMAS CAROL have been produced in many U.S. regional theaters. Recent documentary plays: PEACE CRIMES (2008)and SISTER KENNY'S CHILDREN (2000) produced by The History Theatre in St. Paul MN and ONE DAY/SARAH HOUSE, winner of a 2009 Santa Barbara Independent Press Award for original script. SEXSTING, co-written with defense attorney Susan Raffanti, won the first Guthrie Theatre/Playwrights Center Two-Headed Challenge Grant. *For those interested in taking the Writing Is Rewriting workshop with Prince Gomolvilas, please be advised that applications will begin in April 2011, the class will run on Monday nights from 5/9/11 thru 8/1/11, and the end-of-class readings will fall on 8/13-15.