Gomolvilas presents playwrighting workshop

a six-week playwriting workshop facilitated by
AWARD-WINNING WRITER PRINCE GOMOLVILAS

Using music as your muse and writing exercises as your springboard, we will create rock 'n' roll monologues˜text that strives for rhythm and velocity, electricity and momentum. Using songs to jumpstart the writing process and be the engine of your ideas, participants will learn techniques for writing monologues that crackle in the mouths of actors; explore the fundamental differences between a theatrical monologue and prose for books; discover how point of view drastically changes the meaning and intent of a monologue; and create monologues that have the immediacy, weight, and power of dialogue.... Whether you're interested in moving away from one writing genre and trying theater; whether you're interested in crafting a monologue or series of monologues for a 10-minute play, full-length play, or solo show; or whether you're interested in how to make the monologues in your traditional "dialogue plays" jump off the page˜this workshop is for you.

PRINCE GOMOLVILAS created "Emophiliacs," a punk rock musical that was featured at the 2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. His other plays include "Big Hunk o' Burnin' Love," "The Theory of Everything," "Bee," and "Mysterious Skin" (based on the novel by Scott Heim) and have been produced in such cities as Arlington (VA), Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Singapore, and Washington (DC) by such companies as Asian Stories In America Theatre, dueEast Theatre Company, East West Players, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Singapore Repertory Theatre, and the Smithsonian Institution. His work has also been developed at American Conservatory Theater, The Lark Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, and South Coast Repertory. Prince is the recipient of the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild/Julie Harris Playwright Award, International Herald Tribune/SRT Playwriting Award, and PEN Center USA West Literary Award for Drama; grants from the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group's Residency Program for Playwrights and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation's New Play Production Program; and a screenwriting fellowship from The Chesterfield Writers Film Project, a program sponsored by Paramount Pictures. He recently received the Made in America Award for making a significant contribution to Asian-American theater, an honor given by the East West Players, the nation's oldest Asian-American theater and longest-running theater of color. He received his BA degree in Film and MFA degree in Playwriting from San Francisco State University.

To register, e-mail institute@playwrightsfoundation.org or call 415.626.0453, ext. 106, and leave your name, e-mail address, and phone number.

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	The Playwrights Foundation presents Rock 'N Roll Playwrighting a six-week playwriting workshop facilitated by AWARD-WINNING WRITER PRINCE GOMOLVILAS April 18 - May 4, 2006 Tuesdays & Thursdays 6:30PM - 9:30PM Tuition: $210 (partial scholarship and payment plan available) Z Space 131 Tenth Street, Third Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 Using music as your muse and writing exercises as your springboard, we will create rock 'n' roll monologues˜text that strives for rhythm and velocity, electricity and momentum. Using songs to jumpstart the writing process and be the engine of your ideas, participants will learn techniques for writing monologues that crackle in the mouths of actors; explore the fundamental differences between a theatrical monologue and prose for books; discover how point of view drastically changes the meaning and intent of a monologue; and create monologues that have the immediacy, weight, and power of dialogue.... Whether you're interested in moving away from one writing genre and trying theater; whether you're interested in crafting a monologue or series of monologues for a 10-minute play, full-length play, or solo show; or whether you're interested in how to make the monologues in your traditional "dialogue plays" jump off the page˜this workshop is for you. PRINCE GOMOLVILAS created "Emophiliacs," a punk rock musical that was featured at the 2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. His other plays include "Big Hunk o' Burnin' Love," "The Theory of Everything," "Bee," and "Mysterious Skin" (based on the novel by Scott Heim) and have been produced in such cities as Arlington (VA), Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Singapore, and Washington (DC) by such companies as Asian Stories In America Theatre, dueEast Theatre Company, East West Players, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Singapore Repertory Theatre, and the Smithsonian Institution. His work has also been developed at American Conservatory Theater, The Lark Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, and South Coast Repertory. Prince is the recipient of the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild/Julie Harris Playwright Award, International Herald Tribune/SRT Playwriting Award, and PEN Center USA West Literary Award for Drama; grants from the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group's Residency Program for Playwrights and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation's New Play Production Program; and a screenwriting fellowship from The Chesterfield Writers Film Project, a program sponsored by Paramount Pictures. He recently received the Made in America Award for making a significant contribution to Asian-American theater, an honor given by the East West Players, the nation's oldest Asian-American theater and longest-running theater of color. He received his BA degree in Film and MFA degree in Playwriting from San Francisco State University. To register, e-mail institute@playwrightsfoundation.org or call 415.626.0453, ext. 106, and leave your name, e-mail address, and phone number. Home \| News \| Calendar \| Directory \| Library \| Plays Copyright 2006, Roger W. Tang Questions? Email

The Playwrights Foundation presents Rock 'N Roll Playwrighting

The Playwrights Foundation
presents Rock 'N Roll Playwrighting